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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PYNCHON»
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Reading Bleeding Edge, tearing up at the beauty of its sadness or the punches of its hilarity, you may realize it as the 9/11 novel you never knew you needed... a necessary novel and one that literary history has been waiting for.
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the ...
The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” the unknown woman of the title.
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there . . . or . . . if you were there, then you . . . or, wait, is ...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe ...
Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse.
Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas
Pynchon
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale, 2012
Harold Bloom suggests Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece to date, though he calls The Crying of Lot 49 a visionary romance. This text offers critical essays on these and other works, including V. and Gravity's Rainbow.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PYNCHON»
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Inherent Vice review – Thomas Pynchon's stoner mystery runs out of …
Stumbling out of Paul Thomas Anderson's deliriously woozy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 stoner mystery novel, I wondered whether this is what it ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Inherent Vice, film review: Beautiful but hazy shades of Pynchon
It would take a film-maker of rare boldness to try and adapt one of Thomas Pynchon's dense and eternally digressive anti-narratives for the screen. Paul Thomas ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
Paul Thomas Anderson on filming Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice …
he's the first film-maker to properly take on Thomas Pynchon. ... Anderson is equally coy on whether he met Pynchon to discuss the book, but concedes that the ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
Inherent Vice: why Thomas Pynchon is made for the movies
In Pynchon's case, there is a particular melancholy to the long wait, since few ... set in London and Germany in 1944-45, and where Pynchon displays equal ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
'Inherent Vice' — The First and Last Thomas Pynchon Movie?
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is the director of the film Inherent Vice , based on the 2009 novel of the same name by author Thomas Pynchon. Joaquin ... «2paragraphs.com, Jan 15»
Anderson's Pynchon Adaptation 'Inherent Vice:' A Stylish, Slow Burn
A famously unadaptable postmodern novelist and one of Hollywood's preeminent neo-auteurs. The circuit loop between Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas ... «WBUR, Jan 15»
Improbably, Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice' translates well to the screen
The very things I love about them — Pynchon's polymathic knowledge about an astounding number of topics, his vastly intricate plots, his enormous casts of ... «Tampabay.com, Dec 14»
If You Liked Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, Will You Like Paul …
To read Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice is to trip through a convoluted, psychedelic detective mystery, where one minute things seem clear and the next the ... «Slate Magazine, Dec 14»
Photos: Thomas Pynchon's Apartment In Manhattan Beach, The City …
The ever reclusive and anonymous Thomas Pynchon is now America's favorite author to scrutinize and speculate ever since the death of J.D. Salinger passed ... «LAist, Dec 14»
Review: Inherent Vice: Pynchon and PT Anderson Share a Joint
Pynchon meets Anderson: that sounds intimidating. One thinks of the sprawl of characters, the collision of authorial tones, the hailstorm of literary references in ... «TIME, Dec 14»
