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"There’s strong reason to believe that we’re watching the dream—or possibly the 'Jacob’s Ladder'-style final moments—of our hero, possibly moments after perusing Pynchon’s novel while eating too much spicy food."--Shane Wilson (@shanewilson.bsky.social) on the microbudget obscurity "Impolex" (2009)

Penguin Press has published a Shadow Ticket playlist Seems I won't be updating the Pynchon wiki on the day of publication, like I did for Inherent Vice 😂 Unless of course, it's just scene setting music🤷 "No funny business, solemn promise - I could lose my licence" open.spotify.com/playlist/0dp...

“Mucho Maas, home, bounded through the screen door. “Today was another defeat,” he began.” The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon

Watching the New Yorker in its current Obamalib normie state try to review a new Pynchon novel is like witnessing a car crash in slow motion.

Thinking how Thomas Pynchon has a new novel coming out I recalled one of the funniest sections of Gravity’s Rainbow—the Disgusting English Candy Drill, in which Tyrone Slothrop, a WWII GI in London who is perpetually trying to hook up with local women, discovers a nightmarish aspect of UK life.

t's hot pynchon fall, where almost everyone in the news has a stupid name, the grift is on, and we're all either deteriorating from paranoia or seeing reality in all its firework against a night sky sharpness

It’s here @tompynchon.bsky.social

Sentence of the Day: Thomas Pynchon; Against the Day. #booksky

Remembering when I read all the Pynchon I could, except Mason & Dixon, because I was told it was written in an impenetrable dialect. Happy now to find the prose a pure delight—the 1760s filtered through 1960s underground comix, history and seriousness through a cloud of weed-smoke and laughter

Sweet Vineland poster seen on the Pynchon subreddit Can buy it here alexfellows.com/product/vine...

Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 27 is up! The introduction to Benjamin Franklin. gravitysrainbow.substack.com/p/part-2-cha...

“A market need no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself-its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened-that you had dispensed with God.”

The bookstore crawl begins… @lot49books.bsky.social

September 5, 1957: Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road was published by Viking Press.

"More and more lately he'd been brooding about this great collective dream that everybody was being encouraged to stay tripping around in. Only now and then would you get an unplanned glimpse at the other side." - Pynchon, "Inherent Vice"

“What if Mexico’s whole generation have turned out like this? Will Postwar be nothing but ‘events,’ newly created one moment to the next? No links? Is it the end of history?”

#reading #books #literature #fiction

Semi-related: Do you remember when Pynchon did liner notes for the band Lotion? I remember being kinda shocked when I bought the CD. thomaspynchon.com/thomas-pynch...

Sentence of the Day: Night fell in a long hum, resonating across the bases of lowering clouds with a great frictional gathering of electromotive force, while beneath crept a solemnity of omnibuses, arriving or leaving every few minutes. Thomas Pynchon; Against the Day. #booksky

Photos from a 2018 visit to the Ludlow Memorial, site of the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 when the Colorado National Guard & company heavies attacked a tent colony of striking coal miners & their families Bio of Mother Jones, who organized with the United Mine Workers: blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams...

Read @brettbbl.bsky.social's "Mason & Dixon Companion". When this was announced I wondered what it could add beyond the existing Pynchon wiki, the answer is 'a lot'! The introduction and conclusion are both amazingly illuminating in their own right, but the labour of love that is the annotations 1/3

this is basically what reading 3 consecutive Pynchon novels while not having a job is like

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Wait wtf Thomas Pynchon is alive??

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