Tag: Thomas Pynchon
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Inherent Vice Revisited
With Inherent Vice now a movie, I thought I would repeat this post that originally appeared at Bill Ectric’s Place on 2011: The books of Thomas Pynchon are so chock-full of cool references, I had to make two collages for this blog entry. Pynchon is one of my favorite writers. I recently read his noir-hippie…
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Thomas Pynchon!
I’m a big fan of Thomas Pynchon. Levi Asher, at Literary Kicks, isn’t so sure, but it sounds like he’s willing to give Pynchon’s new book a try. Personally, I can’t wait to read it! Levi says, “All my friends and literary comrades and people I respect love Thomas Pynchon. I guess they find his…
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Forrest Aguirre’s Fantastic Fugue – Interview by Bill Ectric
Forrest Aguirre is an American fantasy and horror author, and winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for his editing work on Leviathan 3. His fiction has been published in numerous genre periodicals and in the collection Fugue XXIX. His first novel is Swans Over the Moon. He often writes about Africa, and is deeply interested in the continent. Zoran Zivkovic,…
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Rocket Man: Thomas Pynchon Again
I thoroughly enjoyed Writers For the 70’s: Thomas Pynchon by Joseph Slade. Here are some notes I took while reading, but keep in mind, these notes represent only a small part of what Pynchon’s work is all about. One of Pynchon’s preoccupations is that the 20th Century was the age of oil, from which we derive, not only…
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Good Reading Ahead
Two books arrived in the mail yesterday! Thomas Pynchon (1974, Warner Paperback Library), by Joseph W. Slade, is a detailed analysis of all Pynchon’s short stories and novels up through Gravity’s Rainbow, which was Pynchon’s most recent book at the time this study was written. In the preface, Slade’s list of prerequisites for studying Pynchon include, among others, Joseph…
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Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice: Feds, Heads, and Threads
The books of Thomas Pynchon are so chock-full of cool references, I had to make two collages for this blog entry. Pynchon is one of my favorite writers. I recently read his noir-hippie novel, Inherent Vice (The Penguin Press, New York, 2009). The term “inherent vice” is a legal term that refers to physical properties of…
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Three for “T” (Norris, Mcneill, & Agnelli on “V” Author Thomas Pynchon)
Photo of Lauren Agnelli by Chion Wolf I’m reading my first Thomas Pynchon novel, V. and wondering if Pynchon created the urban legend about baby alligators being flushed down toilets and growing into big alligators in the sewers of New York, or did he simply take a pre-existing rumor and expand upon it. For that…