Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ˈpɪntʃɒn/ PIN-chon, commonly /ˈpɪntʃən/ PIN-chən; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex...
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of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) includes both fiction and nonfiction works. Six short stories by Pynchon were published in various...
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Gravity's Rainbow (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
by the American author Thomas Pynchon. It was published on April 27, 1966, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows...
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The Battle of Baktan Cross (redirect from Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film)
circulated that it was loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Vineland (1990), Anderson having previously adapted Pynchon's Inherent Vice (2009) into a film. The...
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Inherent Vice (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
Inherent Vice is a novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published on August 4, 2009. A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California...
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Pynchon is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), American novelist George M. Pynchon (1862–1940), American...
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Mao II (section Thomas Pynchon blurb)
accomplished before their aims can be realized. Notoriously reclusive author Thomas Pynchon provided the blurb for Mao II. It reads: "This novel's a beauty. DeLillo...
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William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 – October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield...
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Wanda Tinasky (category Thomas Pynchon)
the AVA, read Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, a novel set-in northern California. Pynchon's style reminded Anderson of Tinasky, and Pynchon's notorious secrecy...
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The John Larroquette Show (section Thomas Pynchon)
"Where's Thomas Pynchon?". CNN. Archived from the original on December 3, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014. Glenn, Joshua (October 19, 2003). "Pynchon and...
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Vineland (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through...
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V. (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy...
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Bleeding Edge (novel) (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
Bleeding Edge is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published by Penguin Press on September 17, 2013. The novel is a detective story, with its...
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in the 1960s through the writings of authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth. Postmodernists...
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popularised by Edward Mendelson in criticism of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, defined as an encyclopedia-like attempt to "render the full range of...
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Against the Day (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published on November 21, 2006. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's...
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Mason & Dixon (category Novels by Thomas Pynchon)
Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between...
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associated with postmodern novels, such as those by David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great...
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In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal The Universal Baseball Association...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, and Willie Master's Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass. Since the 1980s...
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Brodesser-Akner, Claude (December 2, 2010). "Paul Thomas Anderson Wants to Adapt Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice". Vulture. Retrieved September 25, 2023...
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Inherent Vice (film) (category Thomas Pynchon)
mystery comedy film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon. The ensemble cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Josh...
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[better source needed] Mason & Dixon (1997) is the title of a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon. The novel meanders widely through the lives of Mason and Dixon, traditional...
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Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing. Thomas Pynchon and Richard Fariña were fans of the novel when they were students at...
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Erickson. Upon publication in 1985 it received notable praise from Thomas Pynchon and has been cited as an influence by novelists such as Jonathan Lethem...
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Yoyodyne (category Thomas Pynchon)
Yoyodyne is a fictional company featured in Thomas Pynchon's novels, most prominently in The Crying of Lot 49, and humorously referenced in various other...
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Ligotti’s short stories, making him one of 10 living writers, including Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, among the hundreds the imprint has published in the...
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subsequent paperback editions, including one with an introduction by Thomas Pynchon, without obvious note that it is a revised text, and has been translated...
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Pineda Richard Powers Terry Pratchett Dmitry Prigov Alexander Prokhanov Thomas Pynchon Rexhep Qosja Raymond Queneau Ann Quin Ishmael Reed Adrienne Rich Tom...
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