Draft of Pynchon WWW page

[Penny Padgett]

Hi all,

I'm very glad to be back on PYNCHON-L after a few years' hiatus.

I'm working on a WWW page devoted to Pynchon, and I'd like to solicit
comments from the list members.  Since (a) not everyone is Web-enabled,
and (b) I'm currently isolated behind my company's firewall, I'm reduced
to making this page available in an unsatisfactory text form.  It is
attached below.

For those who haven't used WWW, imagine that the underlined portions
are mouse-sensitive and, when clicked, move you automatically to the
relevant file.

Comments are most welcome!  Grateful thanks to John Krafft, Stuart
Moulthrop, Jorn Barger, and Tim Ware for their help and support to date.

Penny Padgett (padgett at intellicorp.com)


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Welcome to the Thomas Pynchon Home Page!

Comments on this page are welcome: email me at padgett at intellicorp.com. 
Thanks to everyone who has already offered assistance and feedback.
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Thomas Pynchon (1939- ) is an American writer, author of novels, short 
stories, and essays. His writings tend to have a profound effect on his 
readers -- so much so that a friend of mine once remarked that, having 
once read Pynchon, one goes through life as a "reader of Pynchon."

Whether or not that's true for you, this page is intended to collect 
some of the resources (electronic and otherwise) available on Pynchon 
and his writing.

To get started, take a look at Jorn Barger's Frequently-Asked Questions 
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(FAQ) List.

If you're interested in connecting with other Pynchon fans and 
participating in lively discussions about his work, you can subscribe to 
the PYNCHON-L Mailing List, which is maintained by Jody Gilbert. 
PYNCHON-L Subscription Information
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PYNCHON-L 1994 Archives
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Other Electronic Resources

A Concordance to "Gravity's Rainbow"

Tim Ware has graciously allowed me to give you access to his Concordance to
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Gravity's Rainbow. It's a nice companion to those who are struggling with the
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manifold references in this book. 


Hyperbola stack

HYPERBOLA 1.1 is a HyperCard stack developed by Stuart Moulthrop and his 
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1989 Yale senior seminar as a "digital companion" to Thomas Pynchon's 
_Gravity's Rainbow_.  The stack contains excerpts from the novel, 
accompanied by utilities for commentary and linking.  Some comments and 
links were built by the seminar.  Note that this stack must be converted
with BinHex 4.0.  For more information about this project, 
contact Stuart Moulthrop, SAMoulthrop at UBmail.ubalt.edu.





Thomas Pynchon Bibliography

Books By Thomas Pynchon
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Reviews of Thomas Pynchon's Books
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Articles and Short Stories by Thomas Pynchon
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Books About Thomas Pynchon
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Pynchon's effect on pop culture

[not done yet]



Thomas Pynchon Biography

File Pynchon's biography under "very slim volumes." Thomas Pynchon is an
intensely private man who has gone to great lengths to keep all facts about 
his life out of the public eye. He refuses to be photographed or 
interviewed, though some lucky people in the publishing industry have met 
him (and even describe him as charming in person). Thus, the number of 
biographical facts available are very few. 
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Undergraduate Takes on _Gravity's Rainbow_

Here are two papers that were written in 1981 for an undergraduate seminar on
Thomas Pynchon in the English department at the University of California, 
Berkeley. This class was taught by Thomas Schaub, who is now at the
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. 

"Pynchon and Paranoia" is the paper I wrote for this seminar. It got a B+, 
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which was probably generous. I'd write it much differently now.

"Mitch's Title" is the paper written by my friend Mitch Ritter. I don't
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know whatgrade he got. 
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