Thomas pynchon

Though he's lived in New York since the early 1990s, after decades of living an oddly fugitive existence in and out of America, Thomas Pynchon now seems, at last, to have arrived.

Short-circuiting the language of literary value, permanently wrongfooting the custodians of taste, Gravity’s Rainbow proposes a new way of thinking about what we treasure most.

Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

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THOMAS Pynchon Almost nothing is known about the author of some of the most seminal, mysterious and generally difficult works of 20th century fiction, and the novelist would like to keep it that way.

The great California writer—if unknowingly—answers our questions about a U.S.Department of Jesus, moving back to the Golden State, and winning a Nobel Prize.

Ron Wurzer/APPoet Gary Synder in Seattle in 2004.English historian Edward Gibbon (1737), American literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895), American novelist Thomas Pynchon (1937), American Beat writer, poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder (1930). Quotable notable: The cruelest thing that has...

Read 19 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed …