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[The Great Quail]

Note sure if you guys know about this, but Google is beta-testing a "News
Alert" dealie. You give them a keyword, and every day you get a report of
that keyword's appearances in the news. Here's today's Thomas Pynchon search
for an example. 

http://www.google.com/newsalerts

--Quail

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:33:40 -0800 (PST)
To: quail at libyrinth.com
Subject: Google News Alert - thomas pynchon

PROMISE of youth
Oxford Student
... managed to churn out nominations for both the Booker and the Whitbread
prizes, as well as extract a glowing quote from the reclusive writer Thomas
Pynchon. ...
<http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2004-01-29/culture/1>

TENNIS deserves a serve (and volley)
The Age
... This is not to be sneered at, for in the past few years, players are
more likely to be found reading the collected works of Thomas Pynchon
than putting a ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/23/1074732600570.html>

WHAT are you looking at?
Chicago Sun Times
... can't it be Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen? The OIsens, along with authors
Tom Clancy and Thomas Pynchon, guest star in this episode. ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/rosenthal/cst-ftr-phil23a.html>

THE World's Most Dangerous Geek
Infoshop News
... Taking the name from an underground postal system in the Thomas Pynchon
novel The Crying of Lot 49, Frankel created Waste: a "private workspace,"
as he calls it ...
<http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/01/23/4827754>

WANT to try classical music? Suggestions for the beginner
Kansas City Star (subscription)
... The novels of Thomas Pynchon, VS Naipaul, John Updike. The music of
the Talking Heads, Radiohead, Wynton Marsalis. Oh, and certainly if you
enjoy Shakespeare. ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/music/7753665.htm>

THE man in my basement, A novel, by Walter Mosley
International Herald Tribune
... And when Bennet decides to hole up in the Blakey basement with "The
Alexandria Quartet," "Moby-Dick," Huck Finn, TS Eliot and Thomas Pynchon,
it's not hard to ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/125004.htm>

ROOTS run deep for old game
Biloxi Sun Herald
... The witch throws knucklebones. Rubezahl picks his nose."). • In Jeffrey
Eugenides "The Virgin Suicides," Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow,"
and another ...
<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/7737962.htm>

ARTISTS in Times of War
OC Weekly
... and Slaughterhouse-Five and Bob Dylan’s song "Masters of War." He
doesn’t go beyond the ‘60s, but could have included in this tradition
Thomas Pynchon’ ...
<http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/19/books-bonca.php>

TITLE fight
The Age
... Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow may be a beautiful phrase and an
intriguing image referencing a rocket's trajectory from launch to landing,
but the book's ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/10/1073437508345.html>

REDISCOVERING JRR Tolkien and 'The Lord of the Rings'
Crosswalk.com
... fantasy has been "the dominant literary mode of the twentieth century."
He claims George Orwell, William Golding, HG Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, and
Thomas Pynchon ...
<http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/1239022.html>

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