| 单词 | Pynchon |
| 例句 | “And I’m a big fan of Pynchon, so he’s an influence.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Zoyd is a typically cartoonish Pynchon character, equal parts Homer Simpson and the Dude in The Big Lebowski, but unlike previous Pynchon protagonists, there's a depth and a sadness to him. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The screenplay prizes, though, went in unexpected directions that the Oscars may not follow: The Lego Movie won Best Original Screenplay, while the Thomas Pynchon hippie-noir Inherent Vice took Best Adapted Screenplay. 'A Most Violent Year' Wins National Board of Review Honor 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z While not quite as reclusive as Thomas Pynchon, Mr. McCarthy gave no readings and no blurbs for the jackets of other writers’ books. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Asked for any comment whatsoever, a representative for Penguin Press, Mr. Pynchon’s publisher, said, “Mr. Pynchon is not giving any interviews at this time.” Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Steven Weisenburger, author of “A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion,” said the online interviews with the creator of “Cow Country” showed an entirely different authorial persona from Pynchon’s. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z So how did Mr. Winslow come to his conclusion that Mr. Pynchon wrote “Cow Country”? Mr. Winslow said he came upon the novel the usual way: He received a copy in the mail to review. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z It goes with a part of the ending that’s legitimately happy — not a regular feature of either Anderson’s or Pynchon’s work. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s even shorter than Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” the granddaddy of all brainy, darkly comical postmodern novels. ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Salinger and Thomas Pynchon, one of the great literary enigmas of the 20th century. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z As Pete heads into the city on his morning commute, he reads Thomas Pynchon's second novel, “The Crying of Lot 49,” about a housewife named Oedipa Maas who discovers what might be a giant conspiracy. ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The next day, a copy of his arrived in the mail: “Vineland,” by Thomas Pynchon. He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The characters in Freedom are, on the whole, a well-educated bunch, whose reading matter includes Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Thomas Bernhardt, Thomas Pynchon's V and Ian McEwan's Atonement. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Several of Wallace's influences are obvious from reading his work - Barthelme, Pynchon, DeLillo, etc. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z Those involved with the acquisition also declined to describe any particular items, or say whether they had spoken directly with Pynchon. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But while the many technology references also seem meant to remind the reader of Thomas Pynchon’s use of similar motifs in “Gravity’s Rainbow,” Mr. McCarthy’s reliance on them feels both derivative and contrived. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z If you ever wondered, “How does Thomas Pynchon come up with that stuff?” this movie will assure you that the world just hands a lot of it to him. ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ Review: On the Run With Timothy Leary 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z These days, of course, we are accustomed to the detailed examination of pop culture in literary fiction, with novelists such as Pynchon, Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace writing in detail about TV and related ephemera. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z In this video, the director Paul Thomas Anderson discusses a scene from his film adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel “Inherent Vice.” Paul Thomas Anderson Narrates a Sequence From 'Inherent Vice' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “Inherent Vice’s” strengths draw from gifts shared by both Pynchon and Thomas Anderson. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z But after Pynchon protested, the Morgan announced that the letters would be sealed until after his death. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Where Pynchon fabricated an industrial giant called Yoyodyne—“a company with factories scattered careless about the country and more government contracts that it really knew what to do with,” he writes in “V.” “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Karla Nielsen, the library’s curator of literary collections, said the archive reflects how Pynchon, now 85, has approached his career. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z And no, there are no photographs of Pynchon either. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z He did not try to verify his claims by contacting Mr. Pynchon’s agent or publisher. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z He is more like a Chinese Pynchon than a Chinese Marquez – and in the end he is unlike any of the great living authors. Mo Yan's storytelling is as surreal as China 2012-10-11T14:16:53Z This being Pynchon, the acquisition comes with a whiff of intrigue. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z That public performance strikes a resemblance to the dense, tangled plot of "Inherent Vice," the first film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, which opens in limited release on Friday. For 'Inherent Vice,' Phoenix plays complicated on and off screen 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “Home” is the America of Thomas Pynchon, 9/11, Edward Snowden, Trump: the tyranny of normalcy, the normalization of tyranny. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Rumors abound of a Pynchon cameo in “Inherent Vice.” ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Yet since Vineland, despite the creeping authoritarianism of the Bush administration and the war on terror, Pynchon has not written so directly about contemporary politics again. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z The famously publicity-shy Pynchon gave voice to a version of himself wearing a paper bag over his head; Updike played a ghost writer to Krusty the Clown. Neil Gaiman to appear on The Simpsons 2011-01-14T10:18:24Z Inherent Vice is a ramshackle triumph; an colourful detour disguised as a crime caper, making antic hay from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel. Inherent Vice review: a free range freak-out for California dreamers 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z I say this knowing that the odds of that ever happening are roughly equivalent to those of Thomas Pynchon participating in a live cooking segment on “Good Morning America.” Letters to the Editor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In Pynchon, sometimes, mysterious sects appear to guide grand conspiracies and orchestrate rococo pranks. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Kirkus Reviews noted “hints of Pynchon” in Mr. Hill’s prickly social satire, which takes aim at academia, politics, publishing and social media. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z A ‘Peculiar’ Peek at Thomas Pynchon’s Latest Bloggers have called it “bizarre,” “highly bizarre,” “peculiar” and “appropriately odd.” ArtsBeat: A ‘Peculiar’ Peek at Thomas Pynchon’s Latest 2013-09-05T17:58:44Z Essentially a historical novelist, Pynchon didn’t write the books in that order, but, in retrospect, a faint, probably unwitting design begins to appear. David Kipen's Great American Novel: The works of Thomas Pynchon 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z This is not how you make a comeback album; it’s how you publish a Thomas Pynchon novel. Aladdin Visible: David Bowie’s Unorthodox Comeback Path 2013-03-14T18:54:42Z He was quick with the literary references — Orwell, Pynchon, Raban — and headed to Juneau for no other reason than he’s “heard interesting things.” Budget cruise from Bellingham to Alaska: one man’s account of his ferry deck adventure 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest . . . and, apparently, the first film ever made from a Thomas Pynchon novel. So, when do those big-buzz movies come to town? 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to call him a “catatonic expressionist,” like Slab, the itinerant artist in Thomas Pynchon’s novel “V.” A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z While the air of mystery surrounding Mr. Pynchon has helped fuel debate over whether he might have secretly written a new novel, scholars who have studied his work remained unconvinced. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Ten years ago, he created a drawing for every last page of Thomas Pynchon's labyrinthine novel "Gravity's Rainbow" — a project that was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and was later gathered into a book. Moment of Friday: Zak Smith picks the metal-est song in the world 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s not entirely surprising that Mr. Pynchon’s name would come up in connection with a wild bit of literary performance art. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z For years, archival traces of the novelist Thomas Pynchon have been almost as rare as sightings of the man himself. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Nearest thing to a Thomas Pynchon novel on screen. What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense? 2010-10-20T11:00:00Z Brooke emphasized what she said was the most important thing: that “a really substantial portion of the archive” would be available in Pynchon’s lifetime. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “The Golden Fang, to me, is just a depository for whatever” enrages you, Mr. Anderson said, using a saltier expression to distill the essence of conspiracy theory, the steady backbeat of Mr. Pynchon’s books. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Its palatial Beaux-Arts home surrounded by lush gardens represents a very different California from the seedy surf towns, hippie communes and sprawling subdivisions of Pynchon’s novels set in the state. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It featured wacky names, like Dimwiddle — a Pynchon trademark — and recurring jokes about obscure topics that seemed plucked right out of a Pynchon novel, including riffs on the Esperanto language, vegetarianism and tantric sex. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Some people called Mr. Chick the Thomas Pynchon of evangelism. Jack T. Chick, Cartoonist Whose Tracts Preached Salvation, Dies at 92 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon, a previous winner of the National Book Award, was named a finalist in the same category for "Bleeding Edge," along with George Saunders for "Tenth of December." Thomas Pynchon, James McBride among National Book Award finalists 2013-10-16T14:09:09Z “There’s a sadness underneath it all. And that’s certainly been a theme in Pynchon’s work, over and over again.” Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Pynchon describes Deputy District Attorney Penny Kimball, played by Reese Witherspoon, as “wearing a gray polyester business outfit with a very short skirt,” Mr. Bridges said. Clothes and Character: 'Inherent Vice' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z After a second viewing of Paul Thomas Anderson’s comic, mournful and gorgeous L.A. elegy “Inherent Vice” – the first-ever screen adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel – I no longer suspect it of being an “interesting failure.” “Inherent Vice”: Pynchon meets Anderson in an absurd, glorious search for meaning, circa 1970 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z He would go home, read Thomas Pynchon or Samuel Beckett and write into the early hours. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z There are good reasons why Mr Cohen is now being compared to other critically acclaimed and notoriously unwieldy authors, such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace. Searching and slouching 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Conspiracies can be art, too, and fans of Brown might love Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon if he would just lay off those innocent Renaissance artists and point them in a different direction. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z Anderson adapted the trippy 1970-era detective story from the Thomas Pynchon novel, and he got Bridges on board even before the script was completed. 'Inherent Vice' costume designer Mark Bridges on Pynchon's world 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z This “flatland” gear, as Mr. Pynchon described it in the novel, means she is from the Los Angeles basin or Hollywood, Mr. Bridges said, anything but the beach. Clothes and Character: 'Inherent Vice' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Plot being somewhat beside the point, Anderson remains remarkably faithful to Pynchon's tone and characters, reportedly first typing the novel's dialogue in screenplay form, and much of that makes it into the movie. From page to soundstage: Award-contending films based on books 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Pynchon, typically, declined to comment on the move. Thomas Pynchon finally gives in to gravity as digital backlist is published 2012-06-13T13:57:14Z And the counterculture which Pynchon seems so to venerate? Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z While writing his book, Short worked with Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson on his latest film, "Inherent Vice," based on the Thomas Pynchon novel, which screens Saturday evening at the AFI Film Festival. Martin Short writes a book about keeping a smile through hard times 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z "Inherent Vice," starring Joaquin Phoenix, is the first of Thomas Pynchon's books to be made into a film. Watching the literary film contenders 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Incoherence is the M.O. of Doc, whom Phoenix plays by borrowing the knowingly slurry drawl that Pynchon used in the novel’s promo, and by wearing mutton chops that sprout like kudzu or a heat rash. Review: Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson's Druggy Nights 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z As a student, Mr. Ruscha actually had one dislocating encounter with Walt Disney, which is a little like trying to imagine a meeting between Thomas Pynchon and Dr. Seuss. Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “You know what, too? In some art school-project way, I hope that this leads people to discover Pynchon and stick with reading him.” ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel "Inherent Vice" is one of his most accessible. 'Inherent Vice' trailer: Thomas Pynchon via Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The Pynchon Essence: When it came to dressing the girls at Chick Planet, a massage parlor, a delicate balance was required to stay true to Mr. Pynchon’s descriptions without looking too jokey, he said. Clothes and Character: 'Inherent Vice' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Pynchon can't really be squeezed into the constraints of cinema anyway, seems to be Anderson's assumption, so why bother trying to make a conventional narrative film? NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z In 2009, Mr. Pynchon narrated an online trailer for “Inherent Vice.” Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z In short, new David Bowie material felt about as likely as Thomas Pynchon appearing on breakfast television. Listen now to David Bowie's Where Are We Now? 2013-01-08T08:01:11Z I couldn't quite make out the title of the book Pete was reading on the train, but it looked like Thomas Pynchon. Mad Men Monday: Don and the elevator shaft 2012-05-07T17:28:05Z Over the years, as his work was reviewed in The New York Times, numerous luminaries took the opportunity to consider the great author and his work, including William Kennedy, Robert Stone and Thomas Pynchon. ArtsBeat: Remembering the Life and Work of Gabriel García Márquez 2014-04-17T22:18:40Z Still, there’s an essential vibration of sympathy – a crazy vibration, or a vibration in response to the craziness of the world – that ties together Anderson and Pynchon. “Inherent Vice”: A first look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s loopy Pynchon movie 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Instead of a precocious cynicism about politics, Pynchon, now 53, expressed anguish about America's trajectory from Nixon to Reagan: "the Repression went on, growing wider, deeper, and less visible, regardless of the names in power." Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of “Inherent Vice” bears the burden of his manifest devotion to Thomas Pynchon, but it’s second to his apparent devotion to Robert Altman. Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Nostalgia Trip 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Based on the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel, the film is set in 1970, the year after Charles Manson freaked the city out and its good vibrations faded into an endless summer bummer. ‘Inherent Vice,’ Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Unlike Pynchon, Joan Didion did not visit the community to write about Watts; rather, she sought to understand it through a wider lens, that of the city at large and its promise of apocalypse. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z For the uninitiated, it may bear mentioning here that Thomas Pynchon is an American writer, born a little over 79 years ago in Glen Cove, Long Island. David Kipen's Great American Novel: The works of Thomas Pynchon 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “What I love about reading Thomas Pynchon is that, for all their density, his novels have a great speed,” she said. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z However, despite productions like the Pyat books, which are maximalist fables of the type that have made global stars out of Pynchon or Rushdie, Moorcock has never shown any interest in eschewing genre. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z I asked Penguin, which publishes Pynchon, why it wasn’t available for download. A Personal Foray Into the Long-Lost Pynchon Tapes 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for lovers of conspiracy theories, and for readers who might leap at a new Pynchon novel, Mr. Winslow’s bombshell may not be much of a revelation. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z His newest film, "Inherent Vice," is adapted from a novel by Thomas Pynchon. When Paul Thomas Anderson studied with David Foster Wallace 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Charyn makes the real and the imagined sound equally plausible, with prose that evokes Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” in its rapid-fire energy. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Pynchon’s publisher, Penguin Press, and his literary agent, Melanie Jackson, who is also his wife, swiftly shot down the suggestion that he was behind the book. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z With a subject perfect for Pynchon’s worldview, this book is his best in years. 31 of the best titles of 2013 2013-12-04T22:03:53Z The range and depth of the Huntington’s collections — which include substantial holdings in American history and the history of science — “resonates with the kind of complex, almost epic fiction that Pynchon writes,” Lawrence said. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z As Pynchon would ask, are you paranoid if you’re actually being followed? ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z "I’m drinking everything mentioned however peripherally in every Pynchon book and jabbering a bit about what it’s like," reads the first post, in May of this year. Drinking with Thomas Pynchon 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Pynchon's novel is full of 'hippies and government agents'. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z It’s fitting that Hanks is writing fiction, because other than perhaps Thomas Pynchon, it’s hard to imagine anybody less likely to publish a tell-all. The evolution of Tom Hanks Skinner’s “proof” that Shakespeare was not particularly inclined toward poetic alliteration was incorrect, and he is as likely to refer to Robert Frost and Thomas Pynchon as to such mathematical titans as R.A. “How Not to Be Wrong”: What the literary world can learn from math 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z After Faulkner, Pynchon and Barth, anything more obviously film-friendly would be feebly retrograde. Which literary novels should a daredevil film director choose to adapt next? 2013-05-11T06:29:01Z It's like encountering someone who has actually met Thomas Pynchon, isn't it? My verdict on Uma Thurman's Motherhood 2010-03-31T08:00:00Z That said, there is nothing in the festival remotely like “Inherent Vice,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s uproarious screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z It's going back to the Pynchon sensibility and trying to bring the essence of that book to the screen. 'Inherent Vice' costume designer Mark Bridges on Pynchon's world 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The Bad Priest in V by Thomas Pynchon In war-torn Valletta, poet Fausto Maijstral first encounters the Bad Priest when he tries to persuade Fausto's lover to get rid of their child. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z It was based on a story by Thomas Pynchon, the American novelist, and featured “my usual mix of violence, jokes and realism,” Mr. Rau said. Is Milo Rau Really the Most Controversial Director in Theater? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z “I was five pages into it and I thought, My God, this is Pynchon,” he said in an interview. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z After Twain and Fitzgerald, there’s Thomas Pynchon and there’s everybody else. David Kipen's Great American Novel: The works of Thomas Pynchon 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z A high school photograph of the reclusive author Thomas Pynchon, whose books are being released in digital format. Media Decoder Blog: After Long Resistance, Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books 2012-06-12T20:11:49Z Last year, a slick trailer announced the e-book editions of Mr. Pynchon’s collected works. ArtsBeat: A ‘Peculiar’ Peek at Thomas Pynchon’s Latest 2013-09-05T17:58:44Z Witherspoon most recently appeared in two literary adaptations: "Wild," Cheryl Strayed's memoir, and "Inherent Vice," Paul Thomas Anderson's film version of the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Reese Witherspoon will be the voice of the new Scout 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z All conversations with Anderson eventually lead back to Pynchon. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z It gets across Mr. Lethem’s antiauthoritarian streak, his instinctive distrust of preapproved canonical worthies like Updike, Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon. Books of The Times: Jonathan Lethem?s ?Ecstasy of Influence? - Review 2011-11-08T23:22:25Z Amazing that Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49,” written in 1966 — before the Internet or personal computers — covers many of the philosophical implications of those seismic changes in communication in ways that still resonate. ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “In the editing room, all the time, I was just trying to be a surrogate to his compassion and his concern for the American fate,” he said, using an earthy adjective for Mr. Pynchon’s attitude. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Anderson, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and Mr. Pynchon, who lived for a time in Manhattan Beach, share a love of Southern California contradictions. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “I’ve said, ‘this was the easiest one,’ but what really appealed to me was the thought that Pynchon’s in his late 70s and still harboring regret and pain about this era. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “Pynchon talks about ‘those little kid blues’ that haunt Doc. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In the film, as in the Thomas Pynchon novel that inspired it, Shasta sets events in motion when she materializes zipped into a formfitting minidress. Katherine Waterston of ‘Inherent Vice’ Shyly Captivates the Fashion World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Even though it was Pynchon’s shortest novel, it’s pretty heavy reading for a commute, especially for a man who exchanged a wedding present for a .22 caliber rifle, then wondered why his wife was furious. Mad Men Watch: Phone Booths and Lies 2012-05-07T10:45:43Z “I always go back to that great Pynchon line — ‘Keep cool, but care,’ ” Anderson says, also noting his admiration for the subversive attitude of another influence, experimental filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Understood properly, post-ironists differ from writers of “hysterical realism,” a category the critic James Wood associates with a range of authors including Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Wallace, and Zadie Smith. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon Pirate Prentice's flat fills with "the fragile, musaceous odour of Breakfast, permeating, suprising, more than the color of winter sunlight". Ten of the best breakfasts in literature 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z “Inherent Vice” — Anderson’s seventh film and the first complete adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel — canvasses matters of heart and handgun with offbeat humor. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The fifth reunion report ran to 138 pages; the 25th, as fat as a Pynchon novel, came in at 1,305. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z Trying to pare back Pynchon without killing the joke was the challenge. 'Inherent Vice' a trippy beach noir set in '70s L.A. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Anderson's film, after all, is the first movie ever fully adapted from a Thomas Pynchon novel. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Conceivably Pynchon may have disguised himself to play the musclebound "spiritual coach" in the orange swimming trunks. Inherent Vice review: a free range freak-out for California dreamers 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z “He’s wrong — it’s not Pynchon,” Mr. Moore said, adding that he knows the identity of the author, who wishes to remain anonymous. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Pynchon’s wonderfully terse parody of the portentous debate around Coleman’s music is as follows: Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Beyond the initial mind-bending implications, the details surrounding the film are filled with the type of high weirdness you’d expect to find in a Thomas Pynchon novel. Lights, camera, automation: should robots replace human actors? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z In fact, Vineland was less than 400 pages long, largely American rather than international in its settings, realistic in style for long stretches, and relatively earnest, even sentimental, compared with what Pynchon had previously written. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Beauman’s fourth novel is a kitchen-sink sendup of spy novels, 1930s Hollywood and screwball newspaper comedies, with a pinch of Pynchon thrown in for fun. Jungle Mold, Ornithology and Lawn Care: 3 New Novels Find Hilarity in Unexpected Places 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, "Inherent Vice" is Pynchon and Anderson at their funniest, loosest and most accessible. 'Inherent Vice' a trippy beach noir set in '70s L.A. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The Americans who have been named as contenders include Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy and Philip Roth, who is 78. ArtsBeat Blog: Nobel for Literature to Be Awarded Thursday 2011-10-03T14:52:30Z “The whole strategy or game doesn’t sound like one Pynchon would bother with.” Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z “Sometimes, he’d say, ‘Oh, I talked to Pynchon last night, and we were talking, he thought maybe it could be like this or like that.’ Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Radar crosses the ocean in the Aleph, the title of a book by Jorge Luis Borges, as important an influence on Larsen as Pynchon. ‘I Am Radar,’ by Reif Larsen 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But he cited literary touchstones as diverse as Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year,” Marquis de Sade’s “Philosophy in the Bedroom,” and the novels of Thomas Pynchon. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z At one time it was rumored that Pynchon would make a furtive cameo appearance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice movie. Review: Inherent Vice: Pynchon and P.T. Anderson Share a Joint 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The film, the first big screen version of a Pynchon novel, is the Centerpiece selection at the 17-day fest that runs through Oct. 'Inherent Vice' takes a hazy trip back to 1970 counterculture LA 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z After all, Mr. Pynchon’s novels have a reputation for difficulty, but they are jam-packed with lowbrow references and gags, dirty jokes, goofy song lyrics, shameless puns, ludicrous anagrams and absurd acronyms. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z There are names that consistently appear, year after year, in Nobel speculation — Murakami, Adonis, Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Bob Dylan. Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The mystery of Mr. Pynchon’s cameo is trivial. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “There’s been a real effort throughout his life to have the focus be on the work,” she said, when asked about negotiations with Pynchon and his family. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z There’s a special kind of despair, Thomas Pynchon observed in “The Crying of Lot 49,” that can arrive “when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.” Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It's earned one fan: Alison Flood at the Guardian writes, "cheers to Drunk Pynchon." Drinking with Thomas Pynchon 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But they might not have been the heirs to Thomas Pynchon or Don Delillo. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z This week’s episode opened with Pete reading Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 on the train. Mad Men Watch: Phone Booths and Lies 2012-05-07T10:45:43Z Several major exhibitions will also be on view when the museum opens, including “Pynchon Park,” a new site specific work by the French installation artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. ‘Faust’ in South Korea and Cervantes in Mexico: Global Arts Guide 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But Nielsen said that even a quick glance provides a sense of the intricate mechanics behind Pynchon’s dizzying world building. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It reads like a timeline for an epic tale of psychedelic paranoia by Thomas Pynchon. Art In Review: JONAH FREEMAN AND JUSTIN LOWE: ‘Stray Light Grey’ 2012-09-27T20:04:50Z Last month, a small archive assembled by a reviewer of “Gravity’s Rainbow” — including a lone, 260-word letter by Pynchon — sold for around $18,000. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Since Pynchon had never made a public appearance, many in the audience assumed the prattling Mr. Corey to be the mysterious author. Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World’s Foremost Authority, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The author, meanwhile, insists that he was not trying to imitate Pynchon. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The relatively modest and heartfelt began to look more of an achievement: not "a breather between biggies", but perhaps Pynchon's last fully realised novel. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Might Thomas Pynchon be somewhere out there too? Inherent Vice review: a free range freak-out for California dreamers 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Surely Mr. Pynchon, 77, would be tempted by such an inside joke? Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z When Penguin Press published “Inherent Vice” last year, the reclusive Thomas Pynchon did a trailer voiceover, writing the script and recording the narration in his rarely heard, rather compelling, Jeff Bridgesian voice. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z “I fall in with Pynchon and Downey Sr.: Be funny first,” he continues. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z I was an inquisitive male postgraduate in my early 20s: a classic potential Pynchon reader. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's hippie detective story premiered last month at the New York Film Festival. Is AFI Fest's opener the awards-season version of the SI cover jinx? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z For example, in her review of “Inherent Vice” in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that “compared with ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ or ‘V.’ or ‘Mason & Dixon,’ this novel is Pynchon Lite.” Media Decoder Blog: After Long Resistance, Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books 2012-06-12T20:11:49Z Mr. Pynchon, known for dense, complex narratives, is one of modern literature’s most revered authors. Media Decoder Blog: After Long Resistance, Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books 2012-06-12T20:11:49Z The film marks both Anderson’s seventh film and the first movie adaptation of a Pynchon novel. Watch the Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Trying to obtain an audience with her is like trying to obtain one with Thomas Pynchon or Cormac McCarthy. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z When asked what the film is about, he responded, "It's about Pynchon." When Paul Thomas Anderson studied with David Foster Wallace 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z On the other hand, Paul Thomas Anderson's gonzo Thomas Pynchon adaptation "Inherent Vice," which opens Dec. 12, generated tremendous excitement online early on. Fickle social media can boost, or trip up, Oscar hopefuls in an instant 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z This week, Random House is publishing “Book of Numbers,” which some have compared to sweeping works by David Foster Wallace and Mr. Pynchon. Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z His career reached its peak of absurdity in 1974 when he was called upon to accept the National Book Award on behalf of the reclusive author Thomas Pynchon for the novel “Gravity’s Rainbow.” Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World’s Foremost Authority, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z They identified Joyce as the architect of this anarchy, and attacked later saboteurs like Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, Barthelme, and DeLillo. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z Some novelists, like Thomas Pynchon, produce complex fictions packed with ideas and themes and incidents that often don’t seem to add up to anything human. It’s time to embrace Denis Johnson’s beautiful corruption 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Based on the book by Thomas Pynchon and starring Joaquin Phoenix as a pot-smoking PI in 70s California, Anderson's seventh feature will screen on 4 October at the festival's centrepiece gala. Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice to premiere at New York film festival 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z To remark that “The Books of Jacob” is about the vexed wanderings of a cult leader, however, is akin to remarking that Thomas Pynchon’s “Mason & Dixon” is about two men who go for a walk. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z In advance of the announcement, each of these writers is no doubt taking Mr. Pynchon’s advice, delivered in his novel “V.” The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Pynchon had sent us a little playlist that he was listening to when he wrote the book. 'Inherent Vice' costume designer Mark Bridges on Pynchon's world 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The Americans mostly likely to win, according to Ladbrokes, are Mr. Roth, followed by Joyce Carol Oates and then Thomas Pynchon and Bob Dylan, those karmic-anarchic twins. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z O.K., everybody can relax, as Pynchon did in writing Inherent Vice — TIME’s Richard Lacayo called it “entertainment of a high order” — and as Anderson did in filming it. Review: Inherent Vice: Pynchon and P.T. Anderson Share a Joint 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Wright, who comes trailing blurbs from the likes of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Pynchon, is the author of five frenetic novels that romp through fields of violence and madness. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The Huntington is likely to draw a flood of requests to access the Pynchon archive, which it says will be open to qualified researchers after processing, which it estimates will take a year. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z He was coy when asked whether he was Thomas Pynchon, and called the question “irrelevant.” Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Why did the hoaxer pick Pynchon – instead of say, Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison, both of whom are older than the 78-year-old Long Island native? Why I believed that dumb Pynchon death hoax: The elusive novelist is tailor-made to be the butt of bizarre rumors 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The acquisition was spearheaded by Nielsen, who several years ago wrote to Pynchon’s literary agent and wife, Melanie Jackson, making the Huntington’s case. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It would be fitting for a Pynchon adaptation. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, writers like Thomas Pynchon had successfully used irony and pop reference to reveal the dark side of war and American culture. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, “Antkind” has in Rosenberg a contrarian whose tomatoes are always rotten. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The drinks are not being consumed in order of publication; rather than drinking his or her way through Pynchon, the blogger is, instead, drinking around. Drinking with Thomas Pynchon 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z “The only thing better than reading Pynchon is rereading Pynchon,” Mr. Anderson said. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon is his obvious successor in that department. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z Mr. Pynchon is becoming an old hand at generating talk around his sneak peeks. ArtsBeat: A ‘Peculiar’ Peek at Thomas Pynchon’s Latest 2013-09-05T17:58:44Z The series title has a more than a coincidental resemblance to Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49.” Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But for a long time, even Pynchon zealots were not quite sure where he was. Why I believed that dumb Pynchon death hoax: The elusive novelist is tailor-made to be the butt of bizarre rumors 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Tom Congalton of Between the Covers Rare Books, who sold the material, said he had handled only about a half-dozen Pynchon letters in 35 years, mostly from the estates of deceased correspondents. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But Pynchon figured out how to turn his back on the world with a wink and a Cheshire Cat smile. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z His notable students included the novelist Thomas Pynchon and the critic and educational theorist E. D. Hirsch Jr. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z This process was very different, he said, because his enthusiasm for Mr. Pynchon’s dense prose made it tough to compress. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s the book trailer for Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Bleeding Edge,” which will be published on Sept. ArtsBeat: A ‘Peculiar’ Peek at Thomas Pynchon’s Latest 2013-09-05T17:58:44Z And Thomas Pynchon's mythic reclusion was further burnished by the acceptance for the National Book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Authoring a rejection of acceptance-speech cliché 2013-03-01T13:49:00Z That year the fiction prize was shared by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Thomas Pynchon. Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He’s a good fit, in other words, for the site-specific “Inherent Vice,” Mr. Pynchon’s third novel set in California. ‘Inherent Vice,’ Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And Pynchon, an elusive, camera-shy author, is rumored to have a cameo in the film. 'Inherent Vice' trailer: Thomas Pynchon via Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He also wrote an outrageous new ending for the film that deviates significantly from the novel, which raises another obvious question: Did Mr. Pynchon approve of these changes? Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z And yet, as in a Thomas Pynchon novel, no simple solution arrives. Mika Rottenberg: ‘Bowls Balls Souls Holes’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And thanks to the air of mystery that has long surrounded Mr. Pynchon’s persona, it was given credence by some online. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z And that, friends, is why you don't adapt Ayn Rand or Thomas Pynchon books into movies. Deducing the plot of "Atlas Shrugged" from the trailer 2011-02-16T18:09:00Z Relax, though–as Pynchon did writing Inherent Vice and Anderson did in filming it. Review: Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson's Druggy Nights 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Fictional places and characters from Thomas Pynchon’s great satire are part of Hornsby’s California backdrop. A punk rock record label owner strains for respectability in ‘hilarious,’ twisty ‘Sucker’ 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z “The Passenger’s” New Orleans setting and colorful characters recalled to mind Barry Gifford’s Southern Nights trilogy and its braided conspiracies reminded me of Thomas Pynchon. Appreciation: I thought I was done with Cormac McCarthy, but he wasn’t done with me 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Carolina Miranda loves “everything about” Pynchon’s stoner detective novel, especially “a circular plot that is so Los Angeles — you travel and travel and travel and you end up right back where you started.” The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z He changed his major to English, began working for campus literary publications and briefly became roommates with Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author of “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow.” C. Michael Curtis, Atlantic fiction editor who sought fresh voices, dies at 88 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon, the famously private author, sold his archive to the Huntington Library in California. The Best of 2022 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon, the famously private author, sold his archive of drafts and letters to the Huntington Library in California. Your Friday Briefing 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The famously private author Thomas Pynchon sold his archive. Your Friday Briefing: The U.S. Will Train More Ukraine Troops 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s ideal for Pynchon’s recurring tragicomedy of America as the perfect wave that got away. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The library’s press release does not include any comment from the 85-year-old Pynchon, who has rarely communicated with the media or many any public statements beyond those in his work. Thomas Pynchon sells archives to Huntington Library 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Pynchon, whose kaleidoscopic “Gravity’s Rainbow” is often compared to Joyce’s “Ulysses,” was a major influence on generations of authors, including Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The story of a haunted man on the run, it has McCarthy’s classic linguistic flair, plus Thomas Pynchon’s wordplay and paranoia and, last but certainly not least, a sweeping history of theoretical physics. Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel — two, actually. And they're almost perfect 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z He moonlighted as a freelance writer, once publishing an article about his futile attempt to locate the reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon. Robert Goolrick, whose books explored tragedy and endurance, dies at 73 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It felt like something out of a paranoid fiction, a slice of invented Americana by way of Paul Auster or Thomas Pynchon. Opinion | How I Became Extremely Open-Minded 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Son Jackson Pynchon said in a statement that the family was impressed by the Huntington’s aerospace, map and science collections, long areas of interest for the author. Thomas Pynchon sells archives to Huntington Library 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Pynchon’s son, Jackson, was deeply involved in the acquisition and organization of his father’s papers. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Americana, his first novel, was published in 1971, but it wasn’t until the 1980s that people began talking about him as one of the greats, in the same breath as, say, Thomas Pynchon. Don DeLillo: 'I wondered what would happen if power failed everywhere' 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Yes, the metropolis might have inspired weirdly alternative realities from Thomas Pynchon and Joan Didion’s passages of dissociation along the 405, but really it was, we assured one another, Disneyland writ large. How Pico Iyer found L.A.'s beating heart at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z In 1965, Mr. Friedman edited an anthology called “Black Humor,” which contained edgy, sardonic writing by Joseph Heller, Donald Barthelme and Thomas Pynchon, among others. Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist, playwright with an edge of ‘black humor,’ dies at 90 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Pynchon is a Long Island, New York, native who has lived in the eastern U.S. for much for his life, but he has set many works in California, including “Inherent Vice” and “Vineland.” Thomas Pynchon sells archives to Huntington Library 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “When The Huntington approached us, we were excited by their aerospace and mathematics archives, and particularly attracted to their extraordinary map collection,” Jackson Pynchon said in a statement released by the Huntington. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Famously private novelist Thomas Pynchon is hiding in plain sight in New York City, but some of his most acclaimed books are set in California. This week's five best book events are all about the best coast 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Instead, he perused the ruins of the sixties, reading Pynchon and Borges, going to punk shows. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z I imagine Luke Rhinehart as something like Carlos Castaneda, William Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon rolled into one: an icon of the most radical subversion, transformed into an invisible man. Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In “The Western Canon,” published in 1994, Dr. Bloom named the 26 crucial writers in Western literature, from Dante to Samuel Beckett, and declared Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo among the contemporary greats. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “When we learned of the scale and rigor of their independent scholarly programs, which provide exceptional resources for academic research in the humanities, we were confident that the Pynchon archive had found its home.” Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In The Western Canon, published in 1994, Bloom named the 26 crucial writers in Western literature, from Dante to Samuel Beckett, and declared Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo among the contemporary greats. Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In reality, the “hellfire society” promised by the novel’s title never pulls together as the sort of phantasmagoria you might imagine in a book by a postmodern stylist like Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon. Review: A love note to Beirut and a lament for war — Rawi Hage's latest is a hell of a story 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z By the early two-thousands, people would have been writing essays bemoaning the unjust neglect of Norman Mailer, Bellow’s misunderstood mid-period, the overlooked postmodernism of Pynchon and Barth. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z When I was at university I was a big fan of Thomas Pynchon, and I’ve tried some of the writers who have come after him and not really enjoyed them. Ian Rankin: ‘I couldn’t get on with War and Peace’ 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Navy and after graduating from Cornell University, Pynchon found immediate literary success. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z When I reached college as an English major interested in American literature, the list expanded to include Roth, Updike and Pynchon. It's time to decolonize that syllabus - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z We know they’ll never give a Nobel to Thomas Pynchon and risk another no-show after Dylan, so let’s rule him out. Stuck inside of Stockholm with the Nobel blues again - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Of course they were all white men: Vonnegut, Barth, Pynchon, and so on. Oreo: Marlon James on a crazy, sexy, forgotten gem of black literature 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z No, to find a healthier alternative, we must cultivate what the great American novelist Thomas Pynchon calls “temporal bandwidth” – an awareness of our experience as extending into the past and the future. To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth' | Alan Jacobs 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Yet throughout his life and career, Pynchon has preferred privacy, shying from the fame his novels brought him. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon wrote a comic novel about the V-2 bombardment of London. Has fiction lost its sense of humour? 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The Pacific Legal Foundation, the libertarian-leaning law firm which represented local property owners Mark Elster and Sarah Pynchon, said it will appeal. Libyan militant charged with Benghazi involvement flown to U.S. 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Instead, the few magazines that bothered to review her, such as Esquire, were left bewildered by the same kind of sentences that entranced them when they came from Thomas Pynchon, or Joseph Heller. Oreo: Marlon James on a crazy, sexy, forgotten gem of black literature 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z “Our free-speech rights come with a right not to speak,” Elster said at a news conference last week after joining Seattle landlord Sarah Pynchon in a lawsuit backed by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation. In Seattle, vouchers lets voters steer city money to political campaigns. But some aren't buying it 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Pynchon scholars and biographers have had to piece together tidbits of his life. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z After all, this is the couple who released only one – one! - photo of their wedding, and in today’s celebrity world that makes you pretty much Thomas Pynchon. Beyoncé and the Instagram that gained 5m likes (and counting) 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Dickens, the model for Jonathan Franzen when he rejected the modernist-postmodernist legacy, is also clearly the model for Pynchon in Bleeding Edge. Thomas Pynchon at 80 – eight reasons to celebrate his birthday 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Which must be why the good professor was asked to accept the National Book Award for fiction on behalf of Thomas Pynchon, for “Gravity's Rainbow,” at Lincoln Center in New York in 1974. Irwin Corey, double-talking comedian who specialized in pseudo-intellectual musings, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Pynchon, though she owns Seattle rental properties, isn’t a Seattle resident or registered to vote here, and thus isn’t qualified to receive vouchers — but still must pay for them. In Seattle, vouchers lets voters steer city money to political campaigns. But some aren't buying it 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z When a CNN reporter tracked him down for a 1997 story, Pynchon said over the phone, “My belief is that ‘recluse’ is a code word generated by journalists, meaning, ‘Doesn’t like to talk to reporters.’ Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “Compared with Ferrante,” Wood wrote, “Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate.” Why the prissy reaction to Ferrante being unmasked? | Catherine Bennett 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Last year’s You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine established Kleeman as a millennial novelist to watch and earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon. Fall books preview: the best American writing from Chabon to Safran Foer 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Despite knowing that Thomas Pynchon hasn’t given interviews for years – hasn’t even been photographed – I approached him through his wife and literary agent, Melanie Jackson. Richard Fariña: lost genius who bridged the gap between beats and hippies 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Ms. Pynchon objects to being compelled to subsidize other people’s political speech, especially when she herself is not entitled to vouchers,” the lawsuit states. In Seattle, vouchers lets voters steer city money to political campaigns. But some aren't buying it 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Lawrence said both Thomas and Jackson Pynchon were in close communication throughout the acquisition process. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It may be helpful, in fact, to think of Jonathan Blow as a kind of Thomas Pynchon of gaming, and of The Witness as his Gravity’s Rainbow. Jonathan Blow: 'I want to make games for people who read Gravity's Rainbow' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Victoria Pynchon, an arbitrator in Los Angeles, said plaintiffs had an inherent disadvantage. In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z In it, after recounting his time with Fariña at Cornell, Pynchon talks of how he heard the news about the crash, on the news on a radio rock station. Richard Fariña: lost genius who bridged the gap between beats and hippies 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Pynchon, a Puritan living in Massachusetts Bay Colony, found little welcome for his views and was eventually forced to return to England. Your Monday Briefing 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Pynchon’s wife, Melanie Jackson, is a prominent literary agent who counts him among her clients. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z If you hand me the original paperback edition of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow I can, quickly and without too much scrabbling, find you the page where the hero loses the girl. Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Thomas Pynchon lampoons the idea of Manson as shorthand for the failure of alternative culture in his 2011 novel Inherent Vice. Charles Manson's sordid legacy endures thanks to pop culture's odd fascination 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z He says of Been Down So Long: “It’s exceptional. It’s a first-rate novel, it’s dynamic, it’s imaginative, it’s robust. In a way, it’s of a piece with Pynchon.” Richard Fariña: lost genius who bridged the gap between beats and hippies 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z His students included novelist Thomas Pynchon and literary critic Harold Bloom. M.H. Abrams, literary scholar who edited Norton Anthology, dies at 102 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “We found them very good to deal with,” Lawrence said, adding that Jackson Pynchon had already put a lot of legwork into organizing his father’s writings. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Somewhere among them is probably a novel that will impact as indelibly on the teenager reading it as Pynchon and Grossman impacted on me. Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z When weirdos publish their weird missives in The Des Moines Register, nobody suspects Pynchon. The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The woozily wacky superficial hunt that animates “Inherent Vice” is merely the scaffolding on which Pynchon and Anderson explore what really interests them. ‘Inherent Vice’ takes viewers on a sun-kissed, doped up, sharply observant journey through 1970s Los Angeles. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And when one considers the middling talents who have won the Pulitzer and that Pynchon was Wallace’s foremost literary influence, maybe the snub was a more significant commendation. The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace While living in Manhattan Beach, Pynchon wrote an account of the 1969 Watts Rebellion for the New York Times Magazine. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z To a kid reading Pynchon on a Galaxy 6 this summer, it has to compete with Snapchat and Tinder, plus movies, games and music. Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The letters were verbose and arcane in much the manner of Pynchon’s fiction. The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Fans of “Gravity’s Rainbow,” eager for its author’s every syllable, used to buy first editions of any title bearing a Thomas Pynchon blurb. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Pebble Chance,’ by Marius Kociejowski 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Pynchon may be a maniac novelist, but the few essays he’s written are relatively subdued and notable mostly for how un-Pynchonian they are. The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace What drew Pynchon to the Huntington was, in part, the impressive range of its collections, Lawrence said. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson’s trippy, trenchant satire is very much a creature of Thomas Pynchon’s biting deconstruction of the final daze of peace, love and understanding that gives “Inherent Vice” its inspiration and its name. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Dec 19-25, 2014 - Los Angeles Times 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Anderson’s reading of that novel made him think Pynchon was Tinasky. The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson's adaption of Thomas Pynchon is probably a noble failure in an impossible task. The AP's top 10 movies of the year 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Particularly challenging was capturing Pynchon’s tone: antic but laced with menace. Anderson goes back to Cali for ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z And then there were the collections cited by Jackson Pynchon, focused on topics that recur throughout his father’s work. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z During a recent interview, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson reflected on some of the inspirations to his latest movie, the Thomas Pynchon adaptation “Inherent Vice,” and how his previous films changed him as a filmmaker. Paul Thomas Anderson on Altman, Phoenix and 3-D 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z And old ladies who might be Thomas Pynchon. The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z If, on the other hand, your sensibility is better suited to a different era, you may have a tougher time with Paul Thomas Anderson’s freewheeling, trippy, undeniably uneven adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel. Review: ‘Inherent Vice’ goes by in a pleasant haze 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He emerged, as he put it, “giddy” but convinced that “Thomas Pynchon is the most important American novelist now writing”. My top 10 unfinishable novels 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z “There are many echoes of things which are in the background of Pynchon’s writing,” said Sandra Brooke, director of the library. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The film is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Inherent Vice is the best or worst movie of the season, depending on who you ask 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z “It has been suggested,” he once wrote, “that Pynchon dashed off the Tinasky letters as a warm-up exercise for a day’s work on Vineland.” The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Despite the film’s frustrations, it must be acknowledged that Anderson - a master of the multi-strand, multi-character, multi-meaning plot - is the perfect director to adapt Pynchon, in terms of both craft and spirit. Review: ‘Inherent Vice’ goes by in a pleasant haze 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Pynchon, to put it mildly, keeps to himself. ‘Inherent Vice’: Meaningful Kitsch, With a Touch of the Dark Yet Pynchon’s writings don’t merely fit in with the Huntington’s existing collections, Brooke said; they put them in a new context, pulling them into Pynchon’s solar system. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In an effort to bring Thomas Pynchon's novel faithfully to the screen, we end up with all of the text and none of the subtext. Inherent Vice is the best or worst movie of the season, depending on who you ask 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The rumor was inspired in good part by Anderson, who loves media attention as much as Pynchon detests it. The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Paul Thomas Anderson is back, and this time he's adapting a detective novel from legendary author Thomas Pynchon. 11 new trailers you should watch this week 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Since all great American literature is really about coming of age, why bother to read Melville or Faulkner or Pynchon? The Death of Adulthood in American Culture 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Karla Nielsen, curator of literary collections at the Huntington, was the first from the museum to contact the Pynchons about acquiring the archive. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z "The Golden Fang, to me, is just a depository for whatever enrages you," Mr. Anderson said, using a saltier expression to distill the essence of conspiracy theory, the steady backbeat of Mr. Pynchon's books. Inherent Vice is the best or worst movie of the season, depending on who you ask 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Famed — and incredibly reclusive — author Thomas Pynchon no less than shocked fans when he came out of hiding to make two separate celebrity appearances on The Simpsons in 2004. See Thomas Pynchon's hand-written edits to his script from 'The Simpsons' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z His next film, Inherent Vice, is a crime story based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon — so, yeah, there's a whole lot to be excited about. The 13 movies and TV shows we're most looking forward to this fall 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Like many first novels, it announces its literary debts, namely to Pynchon and DeLillo. Grasping Ferguson Through Franzen: St. Louis and Its ‘Tragic Glory’ Researching Pynchon, whose work teems with period-specific vocabularies, expansive worlds, scientific and historical rabbit holes and buried allusions, is no small feat of its own. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Harper Lee stopped giving interviews in 1964, and is well known, along with a handful of other writers – JD Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Emily Dickinson, Cormac McCarthy – as a stalwart of guarding her own privacy. Harper Lee: should Marja Mills' memoir have been published? 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Dr. Friedman wrote book reviews and articles for specialty journals on subjects like science education and museum management as well as on scientific themes in novels like Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.” Alan Friedman, 71, Dies; Revived Hall of Science 2014-05-07T02:39:51Z Thomas Pynchon has this great quote at the beginning of his book Slow Learner: “There was a feeling in the ’50s that we had finally arrived as a culture. Making History: A Q&A with Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner 2014-03-27T13:21:51Z The group that stalked Anthony Levandowski, an engineer at Google X, the company’s clandestine research laboratory, calls itself the Counterforce, after a Thomas Pynchon novel. Tech Rides Are Focus of Hostility in Bay Area 2014-02-01T03:19:53Z As Pynchon himself once said, he’d like to “keep scholars busy for several generations.” Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But, as Thomas Pynchon once wrote: “Sure this is magic, but not necessarily fantasy.” Could The Real Secret To Ultimate Human Performance Be A Four-Letter That Starts With "F"? 2014-01-08T16:30:00Z No one works magic with words like Pynchon, and here he is at the height of his powers, by turns gripping, thought-provoking, inventive, touching and poetic, not to mention warmly human. Fiction: Silicon and surveillance 2013-09-18T17:20:56.053Z Pynchon worked with a lawyer who couldn’t bring herself to say “$150,000” to her boss even though she’d been offered more than that from another firm. The Art of Haggling 2012-11-21T21:06:19Z After college, Ilves went to grad school for psychology until he read Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Krugmenistan vs. Estonia 2012-07-19T10:00:21Z In all, 48 boxes packed with Pynchon’s writings will be archived and available to scholars at the library in San Marino by the end of 2023. Huntington Library acquires the papers of Thomas Pynchon 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z I’ve never liked Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady, and large swaths of Faulkner feel turgid and overwritten to me, and I’m allergic to Pynchon. Prize Fight: Why I'm Okay With There Being No Pulitzer for Fiction This Year 2012-04-18T12:20:59Z Pynchon often turns to science and engineering as sources of imagery and symbolism. Fiction: Silicon and surveillance 2013-09-18T17:20:56.053Z If those don’t apply to you, Pynchon advises calling people. The Art of Haggling 2012-11-21T21:06:19Z Previous guest voices on the programme include former Prime Minister Tony Blair, graffiti artist Banksy and novelist Thomas Pynchon. The Simpsons' 500th episode airs 2012-02-20T08:38:00Z “The fact is that both consumer travel and business travel are healthy right now,” Pynchon said. Pioneer Muni Fund Bails Out of AMR-Linked Debt After Plunge 2011-12-05T05:39:19Z “The market is giving one big yawn to this event,” said Tim Pynchon, who helps oversee $3 billion of municipal bonds as a portfolio manager with Boston’s Pioneer Investments. Harrisburg’s Residents Weigh Bankruptcy Against ‘Fiscal Suicide’ 2011-10-13T13:53:35Z In his latest work, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon takes full advantage of this convergence. Fiction: Silicon and surveillance 2013-09-18T17:20:56.053Z To improve my chances I called salary negotiations expert Victoria Pynchon, founder of the She Negotiates consultancy. The Art of Haggling 2012-11-21T21:06:19Z Victoria Pynchon reminded me quickly yesterday that our concerns should be with the unemployed and poor who’ve taken a constant battering these past years. How to Stay Employed in the Jobless Economy 2011-08-01T18:41:28Z Pynchon didn’t respond to inquiries seeking comment on the fund’s holdings yesterday. Pioneer Muni Fund Bails Out of AMR-Linked Debt After Plunge 2011-12-05T05:39:19Z The whole place feels like a Pynchon novel in which a bunch of lunatics are employed by a military contractor with a really fine palate. The Miracle Worker: Chicago Chef Grant Achatz 2010-12-27T09:05:00Z Pynchon, of Springfield, one of the officers in this new state of things, was empowered to bind over all persons suspected of riots, "outrageous or abusive reflecting words and speeches against the government." The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Pynchon was making Springfield the centre of the fur trade of the interior, though an overcrowding of merchants there was reducing profits and compelling the settlers to resort to agriculture for a living. The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths In 1754 he was graduated at Harvard, and after studying with Doctor Pynchon rose to considerable eminence as a physician and particularly as a surgeon. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Pynchon, the third lay leader of the opposition, took part in the migration, but remained within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, founding the town of Springfield. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 There was no doubt that she meant to have but one chick,—out of rivalry, perhaps, with the Pynchon hen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 Alas for the dreams of the Pynchons and the Parrs! The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration Pynchon's settlement was one of the towns named in the commission and, for the first year after it was founded, joined with the others in maintaining order in the colony. The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths The Hepsibah Pynchons abound in houses of less than seven gables. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Another man who withdrew to England from the narrow spirit of the Puritans was William Pynchon, of Springfield, one of the best trained and ablest of the early settlers of Massachusetts. Unitarianism in America Pynchon even hinted that the new town would supersede Halifax. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration Pynchon and Dole, on their arrival at Halifax, had an interview with the governor, and obtained from him very satisfactory arrangements. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration There were other men than Williams, Saltonstall, Pynchon, and Henry Vane, who believed in toleration, liberty of conscience, and a rational interpretation of religion. Unitarianism in America |
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