Thomas Pynchon
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American novelist noted for dense and complex novels Parody?
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Citizen Screen
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On November 14, 1851, Herman Melville published “Moby-Dick” in the U.S. A novel considered a great classic of American literature was originally a big flop.
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JCH Books
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"innocent and not guilty ain't always the same."
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Roland Bates
12 days ago
The new Pynchon really is actively bad.
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uphold mahmood mamdani thought
12 days ago
I think Thomas Pynchon would hate me and my work
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Ste Pickford
14 days ago
I had a really vivid dream that I was designing the cover for the next Thomas Pynchon novel. I was worried it was too simple, but knew it was the right design so submitted it anyway. It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig.
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rocket, zone, white, shit, light, sky, wind
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A Phenomenology of the Present: Toward a Digital Understanding of <i>Gravity’s Rainbow</i>
This essay presents the results produced by the application of three corpus analysis tools to Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow: word frequency/keyness analysis, social network analysis, and topic mo...
https://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.131
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Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 60: Line 74 (1056)
"If there was a reliable light-meter," said Roswell, "it might make a difference to know about how the light was being transmitted, is all...
https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2025/11/chapter-1-section-7-page-60-line-74-1056.html
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Open Library of Humanities
13 days ago
A Bibliometric Overview of Pynchon Studies: Introducing the Thomas Pynchon Online Bibliography (TPOB) by Erik Ketzan:
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Out now at Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
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A Bibliometric Overview of Pynchon Studies: Introducing the Thomas Pynchon Online Bibliography (TPOB)
The Belgian bibliographer and independent scholar Michel Ryckx created and maintained the world’s most extensive bibliography of Thomas Pynchon scholarship on his website Vheissu.net from 2002 through 2022. This article introduces a new resource, the Thomas Pynchon Online Bibliography (TPOB), which transforms Vheissu.net’s extensive Pynchon bibliography into an open bibliography on Zotero, a free, open-source, and widely-used reference management software, with bibliographic metadata for each item, and extensively updated with entries and additional metadata for its 1.0 release. TPOB can assist scholars in locating Pynchon studies on specific topics, by specific authors, in specific languages, etc. The TPOB dataset also supports the investigation of novel insights into Pynchon studies, and may contribute to contemporary bibliometric literary studies more broadly. This paper presents exploratory experiments on the Pynchon studies metadata in TPOB including studies by year and page count, text-to-commentary ratio, formal features of bibliographic titles, intertextual fields, and semantic web.
https://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.23348
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The Irish Times
13 days ago
Maybe Thomas Pynchon isn’t actually all that great
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Maybe Thomas Pynchon isn’t actually all that great
Pynchon has a remarkable grasp of the American vernacular and no ear for prose rhythm whatsoever
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/11/05/shadow-ticket-maybe-thomas-pynchon-isnt-actually-all-that-great-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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RandomExtropian
15 days ago
#Midjourney
7 GPT named this series "Dreams of the Emerald Age" but the lead prompt was actually a Pynchon reference "We await silent Tristero's empire"
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roddie digital :n64:
15 days ago
Ordered the new
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novel from an American seller on eBay because I don't like the artwork on the UK edition, and instead a performance carbuteror for a moped turned up! Seems like it was meant to go to Puerto Rico
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beachsoft
19 days ago
starting to become a Pynchon Guy
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Bill
19 days ago
Thomas Pynchon. What the fuck are you talking about?
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Leslie Harvey Oswald
18 days ago
I hate gay halloween, what do you mean you’re Sexy Thomas Pynchon?
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biblioklept
about 1 month ago
Halloween all year long | Notes on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ch. 8-14
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Halloween all year long | Notes on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ch. 8-14
Notes on Chapters 1-7 here. I’m quite a bit further into the novel than where I’m going to have to leave off in these notes, but there will not be any so-called spoilers/discussion of m…
https://biblioklept.org/2025/10/14/halloween-all-year-long-notes-on-thomas-pynchons-shadow-ticket-ch-8-14/
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Lactose Intolerance | Lisa Borst
Thomas Pynchon, who has so frequently returned to the primordial clash of fascism and anarchy, found his groove in the detective genre.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/lactose-intolerance-borst
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Edward Mendelson: “Pynchon's Gravity”
A critic’s look at Pynchon’s oeuvre and its themes, occasioned by the debut of Gravity’s Rainbow
https://yalereview.org/article/edward-mendelson-pynchons-gravity
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Richard Beck: “Thomas Pynchon Is Angry”
In Shadow Ticket , the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
https://yalereview.org/article/richard-beck-thomas-pynchon
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Red Sky At Night
23 days ago
#luddites
“And Ned Lud's anger was not directed at the machines, not exactly. I like to think of it more as the controlled, martial-arts type anger of the dedicated Badass.”
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Charles Hollander — Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49
https://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/magiceye.htm
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Archarzel
27 days ago
Finished Shadow Ticket. Fuck the reviewers. This is Pynchon playing jazz late into the night after the last patron has left the club; maybe there's no home to go to, but with nowhere particular to be, either.
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Rudy Rucker
26 days ago
Apophenia, seeing far-fetched connections. Pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Pynchon mentions them in SHADOW TICKET. At a metalevel, I'm having apophenia with his work. Like he's specifically writing about recondite thing I've thought about. "Message to you, Rudy."
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When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far | Psyche Ideas
‘Apophenia’ is reflected in pleasant and troubling experiences alike – from seeing faces in clouds to conspiracy beliefs
https://psyche.co/ideas/when-the-human-tendency-to-detect-patterns-goes-too-far
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russell h
25 days ago
Looks like Pynchon is having a moment.
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28 days ago
Joe CIardiello
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Jeet Heer
28 days ago
Thomas Pynchon's first novel V. (1963) features an AI named SHROUD who immediately starts talking about death and suicide. Gotta say Pynchon called that one!
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Pushkar
28 days ago
Playing a 5 hour noir ambiance white noise video on YouTube while reading the new Pynchon only to realise that it's already it's dark, gloomy, and raining outside my window.
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Tony Pennino
27 days ago
“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.” Thomas Pynchon
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Ben Stephens
27 days ago
Shout out to the frankly deranged bookstore clerk involved in this conversation I just overheard: Customer: “I’m looking for a recommendation for my dad. He’s a big fan of John Steinbeck…” Clerk: “OK, has he read any Thomas Pynchon?”
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Pynchon Pals - a podcast about finally reading Thomas Pynchon
27 days ago
It's live! Listen to Pynchon Pals Episode 03: In which Andrew uncovers a conspiracy and North Carolina is mentioned (V. Chs. 5-6).
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Mia Farrow
28 days ago
Thomas Pynchon was in my dream last night. We were in Mexico. And we were happy
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johncarvill
27 days ago
"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌
29 days ago
ㅤ All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow ㅤ
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Picked mine up before I got on the plane from Cleveland to Detroit to Paris to Budapest
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“As long as American life is something to be escaped from, the cartel will always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers”
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GitHub - Yasuna-Ide/Gravitys_Readme: A digital homage to Thomas Pynchon’s monumental novel Gravity’s Rainbow — a postmodern scripture of paranoia, entropy, and code.
A digital homage to Thomas Pynchon’s monumental novel Gravity’s Rainbow — a postmodern scripture of paranoia, entropy, and code. - Yasuna-Ide/Gravitys_Readme
https://github.com/Yasuna-Ide/Gravitys_Readme
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“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”
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josh
29 days ago
It’s prurient I know, but when the Pynchon archives are released eventually I do want to know which of his hippie girlfriends left him for a fed/real estate magnate/whatever iteration of “the man” it was. I understand that’s it’s his shorthand for the 60s counterculture crashing out in the 70s but
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josh
29 days ago
One more stray Pynchon thought: since he was friends with Richard Fariña, and presumably also Mimi (Baez) Fariña, it’s remotely possible that there’s a Pynchon/Baez/Dylan photo hidden out there somewhere
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
30 days ago
Louvre Heist is my favourite Thomas Pynchon character name
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William Gibson, Lisa Simpson and More on Their Favorite Pinch of Pynchon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/books/review/thomas-pynchon-the-simpsons-william-gibson.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Is Thomas Pynchon the last novelist who won’t write about himself?
Shadow Ticket will surely be the 88-year-old author’s final book. But reviewers seem to be annoyed that he still refuses to follow the trend of making fiction autobiographical
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/thomas-pynchon-is-the-last-novelist-to-write-about-anything-other-than-himself-ztkjbz2g9
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Pynchon’s Farewell to America’s Vanishing Dream
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket whisks us way back to 1932 amid shantytowns and lindy-hopping in the end times of prohibition as fascist creeps creep into
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/pynchons-farewell-to-americas-vanishing-dream/
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Gabriel Majeski
about 1 month ago
The moment in Gravity's Rainbow where Pynchon straight up name drops Ishmael Reed- is my favorite "game recognize game" moment in, like, all literature. So this rules.
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“I don’t know why Against the Day hasn’t been banned” | Ishmael Reed on Thomas Pynchon
I don’t know why Against the Day hasn’t been banned. In one of the most remarkable scenes penned by an American writer, Pynchon cites events that the anti-woke crowd would want deleted. Referring t…
https://biblioklept.org/2025/10/18/i-dont-know-why-against-the-day-hasnt-been-banned-ishmael-reed-on-thomas-pynchon/
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Part 2 - Chapter 31: The Act of Killing
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 31: Something Wrong, The Restless Bee, the Paxton Boys, Coffeeshop Gossip, LeSpark's Excuses, Mason's Lesson on History
https://open.substack.com/pub/gravitysrainbow/p/part-2-chapter-31-the-act-of-killing?r=c61zu&utm_medium=ios
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Ghostly crawl | Notes on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ch. 15-18
Notes on Chapters 1-7 | Glows in the dark. Notes on Chapters 8-14 | Halloween all the time. Chapter 15 opens proximal to Xmas time, presumably 1931, still–although it’d take a reread fo…
https://biblioklept.org/2025/10/17/ghostly-crawl-notes-on-thomas-pynchons-shadow-ticket-ch-15-18/
about 1 month ago
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