The Walrus Blogs have an excellent piece on Pynchon and comics.
In other Pynchon news, the man himself creates an Inherent Vice Playlist
Yahoo has the exclusive trailer for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus.
The 5 minute red band trailer for Legion is worth a watch:
The Aquarium Drunkard takes a look back the Prince’s Sign Of The Times.
Id Software unveils footage from Rage at Quakecon:
Thomas Pynchon Fridge Magnets here. Click on the ‘prev’ link to see magnets from Poe, Borges, Dick, and Murakami. Awesome idea.
According to Publishers Weekly , the film rights to Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming 60’s noir novel, Inherent Vice, are currently being shopped around.
Paging Joel and Ethan Coen…
I started reading Rankin’s Rebus novels late last year, far later than I should have. Having worked in bookstores for years, I can assure you…you can judge a book by it’s cover. There was something about Rankin that I sensed was good. Then came a connection….I found out that Rankin and I shared a love for Pynchon. Then the appearance on one of my favorite TV shows, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. It was finally time to check him out.
Tooth and Nail
Tooth And Nail takes Inspector John Rebus from Edinburgh to London, where, as a supposed expert on serial killers, he is brought in to help solve the murders committed by the Wolfman. Rebus is as irascible as always, and Rankin starts to do for London what he has already done for Edinburgh. Highly reccommended.
RIP Eartha Kitt and Harold Pinter
George Bush, The Reader (via The Literary Saloon)
National Book Award acceptance speech for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (via Conversational Reading)
Things aren’t much better in the U.K. The Guardian’s top 10 bestsellers in fiction.
VHS is officially dead.
Play Doom And Heretic in your browser.
Man Booker prize sponsor caught in Madoff scandal.
I wish the Mac Vs. PC adds were really like this
