The Great Pynchon Caper?

The New Yorker on Thomas Pynchon’s interactions with the band Lotion. (I have to add that the URL for this link has the phrase “Pynchon-Lotion” in it, which frankly just sounds like it might result in a mysterious rash and lead you to calling a help line from the more nefarious depths of Procter and Gamble.  Out of body experience included.)

Also, the liner notes for the album in question.

Anyone have a copy of that album?

More Pynchon & Inherent Vice

I’ve sadly fallen far behind on things thans to some traveling and a backlog of work.  Here’s some new links that have been sent my way while I’ve been gone from the internets.

First the Inherent Vice trailer from Penguin Press:

Of course the question is who did the narration…

Next is a map of Pynchon’s LA from Wired.

More as I get my act together.

[Edit – I lost my mind and forgot to credit Shane and Austin for the links.  Sorry.]

Wired post on Inherent Vice

This is old, but I wanted to put it down anyway due to its claim of the end of the Postmodern tome.  Sure Inherent Vice is under 400 pages and that is a change from Pynchon’s usual MO, but I’m not sure it signals that Pynchon is surrendering to the all mighty power of Twitter to lower our attention spans.  Against the Day came out in 2006.  We’re getting Inherent Vice less than three years later.  The last time Pynchon rolled out two novels in the same decade was the 1960s (V. and Crying of Lot 49).  To say that the Internet and Twitter have “driven a stake through the heart of dense fiction” is disingenious at best.