Few know that Pynchon is the brother of Taormino's mom. From Wordnik.com. [September 2006] Reference
Thomas Pynchon is slated to do a guest voice on The Simpsons. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: October 5, 2003 - October 11, 2003 Archives] Reference
The Pynchon is somewhere on my hopelessly large to-read list. From Wordnik.com. [The long grave already dug] Reference
The main theme of the works of Pynchon is the stasis of conceptualist society. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club] Reference
I agree with you that Pynchon is a much greater novelist than was Salinger, but Pynchon came along after novelists stopped being legends. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?] Reference
Video of Tiny Tim performance mentioned in Pynchon's Inherent Vice. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Michael Chabon recommends Thomas Pynchon, which is hard to argue against. From Wordnik.com. [Poll of Polls Result] Reference
Making my way through Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon, which is great so far, but I need a break. From Wordnik.com. [MEME: What Book Are You Reading Right Now?] Reference
Joyce shares with Proust and more recent writers of significance such as Pynchon the handicap of being “difficult.”. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce’s Genius - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Pynchon is mostly like, ‘tell me when and where’. From Wordnik.com. [A Cautionary Tale | Her Bad Mother] Reference
I found it required less head scratching than Pynchon, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. From Wordnik.com. [PClem Reviews What the Shadow Told Me « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Booksnob Beta only reads fiction by Proust, Nabokov, and occasionally something trashy such as Pynchon or Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [Something Awful] Reference
Inherent Vice? has plenty of Pynchon-esque touches. From Wordnik.com. [Pynchon?s Drugstore Thriller] Reference
Pynchon-l has been all over the story since the 10th. From Wordnik.com. [The String Theory Backlash] Reference
Pynchon, T.R. Introduction to Chemical Physics 8vo, 3 00. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
And the counterculture which Pynchon seems so to venerate?. From Wordnik.com. [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference
And you could smell Pynchon and Coover and Elkin all over it. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Howard on Discovering, Editing, and Hatching David Foster Wallace: 'He Was the First Person Who Ever Called Me "Mister"'] Reference
Pynchon suggested that the diagram was the inspiration f/Kilroy. From Wordnik.com. [New Obama Robocall Features Fellow Navy Veteran Slamming McCain For "Vicious Personal Attacks"] Reference
Pynchon is a big idol for me, as are Don DeLillo and Robert Stone. From Wordnik.com. [Jack O'Connell on 'The Resurrectionist'] Reference
When I looked up, the Pynchon guy was whispering and smile-giggling. From Wordnik.com. [Proud And Unpretentious: Lessons From John Irving] Reference
Pynchon, then the probate judge at Springfield, to change the name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
But despite the usual load of literary sass, this is a very different Pynchon. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Surveyor] Reference
Pynchon and another Pynchon, and Mr. Bliss, came in to see Us, and at last Coll. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 22, 4 September - 9 November 1774] Reference
But anyone who knows anything about Pynchon knew that it couldn't be that simple. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Surveyor] Reference
Pynchon was of the late provincial Congress and gave us some Account of their Proceedings. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 22, 4 September - 9 November 1774] Reference
I was an inquisitive male postgraduate in my early 20s: a classic potential Pynchon reader. From Wordnik.com. [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference
Pynchon seemed to fit the model I was learning of literature as an extended code or grail quest. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Literary Storm] Reference
There's simply no other way to put it except to say that Pynchon was in the faces of the Sarasota. From Wordnik.com. [Listen Up: An Amazing Day for Voting Integrity in Sarasota!] Reference
I thought I was pretty clever, thinking I was to become a fancy pants writer like Pynchon or DF Wallace. From Wordnik.com. [joegood Diary Entry] Reference
And the long-awaited Pynchon novel, in stores this week, turns out really to be about the Mason-Dixon line. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Surveyor] Reference
"Cryptonomicon" is his most ambitious, a Pynchon-esque tour de force with a David Foster Wallace playfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hacker Hemingway] Reference
Lowell says Pynchon would take it, because he wants to make Way for Wetmore who is about marrying his Daughter. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 20, 28 February - 25 June 1774] Reference
Inherent Vice,? as some Pynchon fans argue, a sophisticated parody, a classic Pynchon opus masquerading as a light read?. From Wordnik.com. [Pynchon?s Drugstore Thriller] Reference
Nor does he harbor any more fondness for the allegory-riddled descendants of Pynchon or research-mad creations a la Julian Barnes. From Wordnik.com. [Epilogue] Reference
But Stephenson's sprawling, Pynchon-esque works transcend his cult status and are having an impact on the mainstream literary world. From Wordnik.com. [Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds] Reference
It almost seems like, at 72 years old, Pynchon is ready to take a break from pushing himself (and the reader) and just have a blast. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Miley: HuffPost Review: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice] Reference
What Pynchon also delivers in this novel are some jaw-droppingly poignant and awe-inspiring descriptions of Los Angeles and Las Vegas. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Miley: HuffPost Review: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice] Reference
The episode does not air until January, so if someone can please send us a picture of Pynchon by then, we would very much appreciate it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2003] Reference
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