Features
Thursday, January 21 2010
PopMatters Picks: The Best of Books 2009: Fiction
More than half of the titles in this year’s selections offer grim portraits of the human condition, some with more wit and optimism than others, and a surprising number of legendary authors complete the portraiture and theme.
Tuesday, November 21 2006
The Fuss About Pynchon
Cast aside synthetic substitutes, junk food for the soul, and take a bite of the pungent, organic mushroom offered up by the man from Oyster Bay, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.
Reviews
Friday, August 7 2009
Inherent Vice
Pynchon’s latest combines elements of The Big Lebowski, Dashiell Hammett, John Garfield’s movies, and the TV cop shows and Hollywood movie bikinis-and-surfboards grooviness of the early ‘70s.
Monday, January 28 2008
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
There is sheer virtuosity and beauty in Pynchon's prose, its poetry and jazz rhythms, which he uses to build up a sense of artistic wonderment and then discharges with that little laconic snap of emotion at the end.
Blogs
Thursday, September 10 2009
Soundscape of the Body Politic: The Songs of Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice'
Interpolators of literature always try to figure out how we, as readers, glean the book in our hands. Arguments between the likes of Harold Bloom…
