Who would have figured that Pynchon would deliver a book a mere couple of years after his last doorstop. Inherent Vice
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The B&N Review has a unique review of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice by Ward Sutton (via JeFF Vandermeer’s Ecstatic Days).
My RSS reader of choice is Google Reader. I like it because it allows easy flagging of posts for later perusal. The main problem is that I rarely go back to them. In an effort to clean things up, I present a glimpse of how my mind works, 10 articles at a time:
The End Of The Road via Scanners
The Devil and Miss Cody via Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
Alton Brown Pizza Dough Videos via Slice
Power Moby Dick
Steampunk via The Little Professor
French Novel Of The Decade via Conversational Reading
Det Turm In English Via Conversational Reading
The Jewish Thomas Pynchon via Conversational Reading
100 Films For The Ideal Cinematheque via Alternative Film Guide
Unlocking The European Film Vault via Open Culture
The payoff comes about three and a half minutes in, but you should watch from the start for conetxt.
Wired has a nifty Google maps guide to Pynchon’s Los Angeles.
Over at Notes In The Margin, guest blogger Tibor Fischer shares some thoughts on Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming Inherent Vice
if you had handed me the first 30 pages, I would have staked my life I was reading the opening of the new Elmore Leonard.
Google continues to impress with Google Earth. Tour the Prado museum in high-resolution.
Pitchfork reports on Land of Kush, a 30-plus member ensemble, who are releasing an album based on Thomas Pynchon’s Against The Day. (streaming sample after the jump).
Clusterflock has a small sampling of drawings by William T. Vollmann.
Speaking of Vollmann, Europe Central has been adapted into a play:
Dead Poets Society
The Modern Word on The Insect Trust and “The Eyes Of A New York Woman.”
The song’s composers are listed as Jeff Ogden and Thomas Pynchon, and the lyrics are taken verbatim from V., where they are sung by Benny Profane as he, Angel, and Geronimo are trying to pick up some girls (V. [1963; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1979], 127).
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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
When I first saw the jacket design for Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice
A friend remarked, “Hm…is that ECTO 1 on the cover?” The second version of the cover (on right) looks a lot better. It seems that I am not the only one that cringed. Scott over at Conversational Reading comments on the cover and traces its origin.
The neon is a nice touch.
