Pynchon Fans Eager to Feast on New Novel

Zak Smith is a painter, a rebel and an Ivy Leaguer, a Yale University graduate with a green mohawk, an apartment of wall-to-wall illustrations and a passion for comics, classic novels — and Thomas Pynchon.

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Sam Anderson discusses his hatred of all things Pynchon.

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I'm kind of a cipher and puzzle geek, so I found this pretty interesting.

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Playboy magazine editor Chris Napolitano is interviewed by Mr. Media, a.k.a., Bob Andelman, about Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, Hugh Hefner, Maxim, Penthouse, interviewing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and which feature the magazine must have.

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This is a story about the sixties: it's about me and some friends of mine, it's about Berkeley, and it's about Pynchon. It's about a decade in which we were all young together and thought we would stay young forever. Berkeley was our Vineland, a dream of a perfect new world.

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Against the Day is a baggy monster of a book, sphinxlike and intimidating in its white wrappers, which are decorated with nothing but a seal containing an unintelligible glyph.

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As a novel of ideas, this book is a further stage in the enactment of the classic Pynchonian concern: the forging of the modern world by an opposition between, as Pynchon once wrote, cultures valuing analysis and differentiation and cultures valuing unity and integration.

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NY Times disses Thomas Pynchon's most recent work.

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When rumours began to circulate concerning an impending novel from the reclusive American author Thomas Pynchon, I was sceptical. There had been rumours before: they are part and parcel of the parallel universe encountered in Pynchon's work.

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