21. Smoking Dope With Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir I don t know what I can tell you about thomas pynchon, but I can tell you something about myself, about the impact that the sixties and Berkeley and pynchon http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm

Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir by Andrew Gordon [This article appeared in The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel , ed. Geoffrey Green, Donald J. Greiner, and Larry McCaffery (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994): 167-78.] This is a story about the sixties: it's about me and some friends of mine, it's about Berkeley, and it's about Pynchon. It's about a decade in which we were all young together and thought we would stay young forever. Berkeley was our Vineland, a dream of a perfect new world. The time was ripe, America was ours, and we were going to change the world: Paradise Now or Apocalypse Now. Neither one happened. As the decades pass, is anything left of that refuge, that Vineland, apart from memory and isolated dreams? Where are the sixties now? Where are we? And where is Thomas Pynchon? We are stardust, we are golden, We are billion-year-old carbon, And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden. (Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock")

22. Thomas Pynchon (1937-) pseudonymously written by thomas pynchon in the mid 1980s. thomas pynchon Gravity s Raibow page. mostly in German (Otto Sell, Germany) http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/p/pynchon21.htm

Thomas Pynchon (1937-) b. May 8, 1937, Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y., U.S. American novelist and short-story writer whose works combine black humour and fantasy to depict human alienation in the chaos of modern society. After earning his B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1958, Pynchon spent a year in Greenwich Village writingshort stories and working on a novel. In 1960 he was hired as a technical writer for Boeing Aircraft Corporation inSeattle, Wash. Two years later he decided to leave the companyand write full-time. In 1963 Pynchon won the@Faulkner Foundation Award for his first novel, V. (1963), a whimsical, cynically absurd tale of a middle-aged Englishman's@search for "V," an elusive, supernatural adventuress appearing in various guises at critical periods in European history. In his next book, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Pynchon described a woman's strange quest to discover the mysterious, conspiratorial Tristero System in a futuristic world of closed societies. The novel serves as a condemnation of modern industrialization. Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) is a tour de force in 20th-century literature. In exploring the dilemmas of human beings in the modern world, the story, which is set in an area of post-World War II Germany called "the Zone," centres on the wanderings of an American soldier who is one of many odd characters looking for a secret V-2 rocket that will supposedly break through the Earth's gravitational barrier when launched. The narrative is filled with descriptions of obsessive and paranoid fantasies, ridiculous and grotesque imagery, and esoteric mathematical and scientific language. For his efforts Pynchon received the National Book Award, and many critics deemed Gravity's Rainbow a visionary, apocalyptic masterpiece. Pynchon's next novel

23. The Great Divide But in fact, as thomas pynchon demonstrates in his encyclopedic, witty and surreal new novel, their accomplishment was a good deal more modest than we might http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/970518.18boylet.html

May 18, 1997 The Great Divide By T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE Thomas Pynchon's novel features two historical figures who were sent to America to settle a dispute More on Thomas Pynchon, from The New York Times Archives By Thomas Pynchon. 773 pp. New York: hink of the names forever linked in our collective memory Quixote and Panza, Laurel and Hardy, Masters and Johnson, Sacco and Vanzetti and add another pair to the list: Mason and Dixon. Who were they? An obscure English astronomer and an even obscurer surveyor who don't even rate separate entries in my Encyclopaedia Britannica. And what did they do, after all, to be memorialized in grade school history texts and enter the airy realm of the metaphoric? Why, divide North and South, of course, the free-soil states from the slave, with their legendary Mason-Dixon line. Everyone knows that. It's part of the national mythos, along with Ben Franklin's kite, George Washington's cherry tree and Paul Bunyan's ax. But in fact, as Thomas Pynchon demonstrates in his encyclopedic, witty and surreal new novel, their accomplishment was a good deal more modest than we might suppose and more strenuous too. Therein lies the tale. The method is sublime. It allows for the surveyors' story to become an investigation into the order of the universe, clockwork deity and all, and yet at the same time to reflect the inadequacy of reason alone to explain the mystery that surrounds us. The haunted world, the suprareal, the ghostly and the impossible have the same valence as the facts of history as we receive them. If the traditional historical novel attempts to replicate a way of life, speech and costume, the post-modernist version seeks only to be just that, a version. As the Reverend Cherrycoke points out, history needs ''to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius,'' and Mr. Pynchon is more than willing to audition for the role.

24. Have You Seen This Man? | By Genre | Guardian Unlimited Books A new documentary claims to be a warts n all look at thomas pynchon. There s just one thing missing the author. Steven Poole on the life and times of a http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,950245,00.ht

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25. Lots Of Thomas Pynchon Links I don t plan to add pages that merely mention thomas pynchon as their favorite The Booksmith s thomas pynchon page nice photos of the bookcovers, http://www.acmeme.org/pynchon/

So today (5/17/98) I got really frustrated about how hard it is to find a good set of links to Pynchon info. This page is born of that frustration. PLEASE feel free to suggest more links, revisions to these, or ask me to remove your link. I don't plan to add pages that merely mention Thomas Pynchon as their "favorite writer" or something. Sorry this page is ugly; it is supposed to be functional. Pynchon's work important to me. So is the Pynchon listserv, whose foalk give me great joy. Thank you, TRP. Thanks, Pynchon-L. (9/18/03)Wow, I moved this page to a new site after 5 years. Let's hope everyone eventually finds its new home. Next, to update the links. I've done a few, but boy are there ever a lot of broken ones still. (06/25/06)Rainy sunday, some broken links fixed, added a couple links. (06/27/06)I learned today that Pynchon may have a new book coming out in December! Here's the order: Cornerstone Links Homepages about Pynchon Essays about Pynchon Works and/or Pynchon Reviews of Works ... Links to articles not in English Cornerstone Links The magic of wikis has come to TRP with the Pynchonwiki! Wow.

26. THOMAS PYNCHON Hannibal Rising is the story of Hannibal Lecter s childhood and early years, from the megabestselling author of Hannibal and The Silence of the Lambs http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/thomaspynchon/

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27. Pynchon: He Who Lives By The List, Dies By It - November 15, 2006 - The New York thomas pynchon is known as the most seductively difficult of living novelists. He has the kind of following that only a bearer of esoteric knowledge can http://www.nysun.com/article/43545

GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-2780138255948105", "NYSUN_ROS_Mid_ATF_125x125"); Current Weather Recent Editions Mon Tue Wed Thu January 25-27, 2008 Search Archives: Advertise Subscribe Contact Us Email Alerts ... Print Pynchon: He Who Lives By the List, Dies by It Books Review of: Against the Day By ADAM KIRSCH Staff Reporter of the Sun November 15, 2006 A D V E R T I S E M E N T A D V E R T I S E M E N T Thomas Pynchon is known as the most seductively difficult of living novelists. He has the kind of following that only a bearer of esoteric knowledge can attract — not just readers, but disciples, who find in books such as "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973) a cranky, erudite scripture for our time. Such fans love to apply their homemade hermeneutics to the mysteries with which Mr. Pynchon's novels are carefully seeded. Who or what is V., the multivalent object of desire in "V." (1963)? Who is behind the Tristero, the ancient conspiracy that ensnares Oedipa Maas in "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966)? Precisely because there are no final answers to these questions, they admit endless interpretation. For Mr. Pynchon, indeed, our world is nothing but a theater of frustrated interpretations, of meanings deferred and clues undeciphered. Yet he always holds out the hope that somehow, to a chosen few in an indefinite future, the mystery will be revealed. After reading "Against the Day" (Penguin Press, 1,085 pages, $35), however, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Mr. Pynchon's difficulty is really just the costume worn by his simplicity. The complexity of his novels, and of this eagerly awaited sixth novel in particular, is really a matter of simple multiplicity: They are stuffed to bursting with oddities, so that the reader moves through them at the halting pace of a rubbernecker. In "Against the Day," which spans the quarter-century between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I, Mr. Pynchon dispenses his oddities in double fistfuls. We get a hot-air balloon crewed by boy adventurers, a dynamite-toting anarchist, a mysterious fourth dimension, a crystal lens that splits time, a ship that can sail through sand, the legendary Tibetan kingdom of Shambhala — and that doesn't even begin to exhaust the list.

28. Thomas Pynchon And The South Bay thomas pynchon burst onto the literary scene in 1963 with the publication of his first novel V, which won its author the William Faulkner First Novel http://theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html

Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay by Garrison Frost The Manhattan Beach of the early 21st Century hardly seems the kind of place that a reclusive literary icon would set up shop to write his great novel. And, truthfully, it isn't. But that wasn't always the case. Thomas Pynchon burst onto the literary scene in 1963 with the publication of his first novel "V," which won its author the William Faulkner First Novel award. His second novel, "The Crying of Lot 49," only solidified Pynchon's reputation as a new American writer who was redefining the boundaries of the form. But none of his earlier work prepared the literary world for Pynchon's next work, 1973's "Gravity's Rainbow." It was this doorstop of a book that had reviewers comparing Pynchon to Flaubert, Faulkner and Joyce. There are few modern writers plying their trade today who do not owe some stylistic kinship to Pynchon. He was the first author to give voice to modern paranoia and popular culture; many have followed his lead. To discuss only his work is only to tell part of the story of Pynchon, for the author is also a legendary recluse. Actually, recluse might be too light a word. Invisible might be better.

29. Recluse Speaks Out To Defend McEwan thomas pynchon, who vies with J D Salinger for the title of the world s most secretive author, has broken his strict rules on privacy to join a campaign to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/06/nwriter06.xml

30. FUSION Anomaly. Thomas Pynchon pynchon, thomas (1937 ), American novelist, known for his experimental writing techniques that involve extremely complicated plots and themes. http://fusionanomaly.net/thomaspynchon.html

Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache Thomas Pynchon This nOde last updated May 7th, 2003 and is permanently morphing... (11 K'an (Corn) / 12 Uo - 24/260 - 12.19.10.4.4) Pynchon, Thomas Born 1937 American writer whose dark, pessimistic novels of life in a technologically advanced society include _Gravity's Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon's books portray a vast social network made up of the industrial, military, mass-communication, and entertainment systems that developed during World War II (1939-1945). He traces the development of this network from the European roots of free enterprise, throughout the founding of the United States, to modern times. Pynchon's novels are broad in scope and use scientific theories, historical facts, and details of popular culture with great accuracy. He directs large casts of characters through interwoven plots that are often incomplete. He uses a variety of narrative techniques, including satire, humor, and suspense, to paint a dark, but not hopeless, picture of society. Much of Pynchon's personal life remains a mystery. He has lived in seclusion for many years, and his academic and military records have been lost.

31. Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Pynchon And Homer BACK IN JUNE, we expressed surprise that the famously reclusive novelist thomas pynchon had contributed a foreword to a new reissue of George Orwell s http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/19/pynchon_and_homer/

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32. Untitled Thomas Pynchon | Cosmic Variance The rumors are apparently true thomas pynchon has a new book coming out, scheduled for release on December 5 of this year. We know they’re true because the http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/07/20/untitled-thomas-pynchon/

home about archives links ... Can Help Us Now digg_url = 'http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/07/20/untitled-thomas-pynchon/'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Untitled Thomas Pynchon Sean at 12:13 pm, July 20th, 2006 The rumors are apparently true: Thomas Pynchon amazon.com page where you are welcome to buy it. As Slate With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx. Sofia Kovalevskaya will play a prominent role in the new book? What is the title, for crying out loud? Wondering is half the fun. The notoriously reclusive Pynchon is fond of sprinkling science throughout his works, and scientists are fond of reading them in turn.

33. Thomas Pynchon's 'Against The Day' -- New York Magazine Book Review Against the Day is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn’t mean pynchon can’t also be fun. http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/24728/

New York Magazine The Word Skip to content , or skip to search Home This Week's Magazine Cover Archive ... Skip to content , or skip to search Search: Entire Site Restaurants Events Hotels Stores Search: Entire Site Restaurants Events Hotels Multimedia Stores Guaranteed Lowest Price! Subscribe Today! Give a Gift Welcome, UserName Edit Profile Log Out You are not logged in Log In Register The Book Review Thomas Pynchon vs. the World Against the Day is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn’t mean Pynchon can’t also be fun. Add a Comment Comment Add Yours Comments ... Add Yours By Keith Gessen Published Nov 22, 2006 T here is a striking moment in Thomas Pynchon’s enormous new novel that threatens to get lost, like many of the striking moments in his novels, in all the other moments: of overly wrought prose, of names so memorable that you can’t remember them, and of quasi-historical accounts of science and politics that the diligent book reviewer and his fact checker would like to substantiate but that are mainly unsubstantiable. One would need to sit Pynchon down and demand to know what he’s been reading, but we don’t even know what he looks like. In any case, in Against the Day

34. Sleuths Break Adobe's San Jose Puzzle, Find Pynchon Inside | Threat Level From W Pierce Inverarity is the name of the mogul from thomas pynchon s The Crying of Lot 49. Posted by JohnDarby Aug 19, 2007 34910 PM http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/sleuths-break-a.html

Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired Main Sleuths Break Adobe's San Jose Puzzle, Find Pynchon Inside By Ryan Singel Categories: Hacks and Cracks Two men, who both may have well have been named Arnold Snarb, were wandering around San Jose looking for a good time. Instead they stumbled on a deep puzzle embedded in the landscape. Specifically, four mysteriously changing, huge LED semaphores on an Adobe building in San Jose. Mark Snesrud and Bob Mayo took on the public art challenge , leading them to W.A.S.T.E. cash on some fancy radios, find hidden XML files, use computer programs to generate a 4,142 page equation that explained the signals but signified nothing, and finally crack the code to find the building is continually broadcasting the text of Thomas Pynchon's " The Crying of Lot 49 ." (Are they paying royalties on this or just betting that Pynchon is too cool to sue?) The whole explanation of how they broke the code is in this 18-page document (in PDF form, of course) THREAT LEVEL applauds the duo's fine sleuthing and their ability to pierce inverarity.

35. Did Thomas Pynchon Post On His Amazon Page? - By Troy Patterson - Slate Magazine Things did not delay in turning curious when the first beats of the drumroll began for thomas pynchon s forthcoming book. Last month, litbloggers and http://www.slate.com/id/2146152/

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36. Thomas Pynchon Wiki: Against The Day This is the Wiki for thomas pynchon s Against the Day. You can take a look at the cover, read the book description written by pynchon himself, http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

37. Thomas Pynchon - Salon.com The fall of the house of pynchon Slogging through the science and history, sex and paranoia that crowd thomas pynchon s cartoonish new novel, it s obvious http://dir.salon.com/topics/thomas_pynchon/

Search: Salon The Web Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 Books Comics Community Life ... Thomas Pynchon (10 stories) Thomas Pynchon The fall of the house of Pynchon Slogging through the science and history, sex and paranoia that crowd Thomas Pynchon's cartoonish new novel, it's obvious his disciples now write better Big Idea novels than he does. By Laura Miller Nov 21, 2006 The Fix Anna Nicole's son's death cleared up, but the mystery of her baby's daddy deepens. Plus: Screech's sex tape, the preview. Sep 28, 2006 How to get a blurb from Thomas Pynchon By Craig Offman Oct 15, 1999 By David Bowman Oct 13, 1999 Deep code Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software. By Andrew Leonard May 19, 1999 Going Up "The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black intellectual novel By Laura Miller Jan 12, 1999 Terrible swift sword By David Bowman Dec 3, 1998

38. Salon | Media Circus: The Crying Over Lot 49 Of Thomas Pynchon's Letters Salon Media Circus By making her collection of reclusive author thomas pynchon s correspondence public, an agent has become the Linda Tripp of the literary http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html

T A B L E T A L K Is the media's use of the phrase "white trash" discriminatory? Discuss this last bastion of media bias in Table Talk R E C E N T L Y The (not so) mighty Quinn By Harry Jaffe Washington society maven Sally Quinn has been on a mean-spirited crusade against the Clintons ever since they refused to kiss her ring Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp And the loser is ... A bad week for the First Amendment By Eric Alterman Can a reporter write a book about a subject he covers? Under the Covers By James Poniewozik Money magazines, reflecting our schizoid attitudes toward loot, wobble between safe 'n' sober advice and get-rich-quick fantasies Memoirs of a shy pornographer By Molly Weatherfield A pornographer is taken aback when a reader takes her fantasies seriously BROWSE THE MEDIA CIRCUS ARCHIVES The crying over Lot 49 of Thomas Pynchon's letters BY MAKING HER COLLECTION OF THE RECLUSIVE AUTHOR'S CORRESPONDENCE PUBLIC, AN AGENT HAS BECOME THE LINDA TRIPP OF THE LITERARY WORLD. BY DWIGHT GARNER T he story of Thomas Pynchon's initial disappearance has been told so often that it has passed into legend. The year was 1963; the place was Mexico City. Time magazine dispatched a photographer to bring back an image of the 26-year-old author of a promising first novel called "V." The problem was, Pynchon didn't want his picture snapped he reportedly felt his buck teeth made him look like Bugs Bunny. So he climbed aboard a bus and vanished into the hills, where his furtive manner and wildly overgrown mustache led the locals to dub him "Pancho Villa."

39. VQR » Back To The Future: On Thomas Pynchon's Against The Day thomas pynchon’s sprawling, untidy new novel, Against the Day, is only as frustrating as most of his fiction. It starts in the air, highminded as a kite, http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/summer/logan-pynchon-against-the-day/

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40. Thomas Pynchon And The Myth Of Invisibility - TLS Highlights - Times Online thomas pynchon’s new novel begins in midair. A company of semimilitary overgrown schoolboys, known collectively as “The Chums of Chance”, http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25339-2477997,00.html

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