Now Playing at Pynchon Cinemas

[David Morris]

http://quarterlyconversation.com/now-playing-at-pynchon-cinemas-whats-going-on-in-pynchons-three-california-novels

Now Playing at Pynchon Cinemas: What’s Going on in Pynchon’s Three
California Novels

Since Thomas Pynchon’s recently published seventh novel, Inherent
Vice, arrives as his third fictional representation of California in
the period 1964-70 (following The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Vineland
(1990)), it’s fair to ask: Why does Pynchon keep coming back here?