Thomas Pynchon is a celebrated postmodern novelist. His works include The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Against the Day.
"I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. I am the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I am the dead palm tree, the Negro's dancing pumps, the dried fountain after tourist season. I am all the appurtenances of night."
– Thomas Pynchon, V.
ARTICLES FEATURING THOMAS
Pynchon’s Launch Party
Pynchon’s literary career has shared more with the dehumanizing ethos of Silicon Valley than has been recognized. Siri is a Pynchon character....
Pynchon’s Postmodern Legacy, or Why Irony Is Still Relevant
A HALF CENTURY into his career, one thing is clear: Thomas Pynchon plays insider baseball. Whatever else he may be attempting, ...
Pynchon’s Deep Web
IN 1984, at the height of what SF fans and critics would come to consider the era of cyberpunk, Thomas Pynchon ...
You Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Empty, I Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Full
Swimming pools, movie stars....
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian....
