The Fuss About Pynchon

By John Carvill

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. [21 November 2006]

Inherent Vice

By Christopher Guerin

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. [7 August 2009]

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

By John Carvill

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. [28 January 2008]

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

By Carlin Romano

Thomas Pynchon requires commitment. [29 November 2006]

Mixed Media: Soundscape of the Body Politic: The Songs of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’