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Pynchon at 13
Pynchon enters The New York Times best-selling fiction list at #13.
This link also includes an artist’s extrapolation forward from a high school yearbook photo that guesses what Pynchon might look like today. I have no idea if the face is right, but I know the clothes and glasses are wrong. This last mention of this guy in public is in a Godzilla shirt and jeans to interview a little-known band. I don’t know what Pynchon wears these days, but what’s rendered in that image is not it.
Pynchon at 1
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- New Pynchon Impossible to know if this is legit or not, but Chris of Black is the new Blood says Thomas Pynchon has a book coming out...
- Bookforum Pynchon Issue Several prominent postmodern writers thoroughly discuss Pynchon in Bookforum. Yeah, get the fuck over there son. (Thanks to Ed via Maud) ...
- LIESL on Pynchon In the NYTBR, LIESL reviews Pynchon. The review has some good moments. In a singularly disturbing imaginative leap, he seems to make a ghoulish association...
- Pynchon Release Moved Up Get that shit 2 weeks earlier. Interesting to see them jockeying Pynchon up a little bit. Mason & Dixon did about 300,000 in hardcover, truly...
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