IV reviewed in Publishers Weekly

[David Payne]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 (11:10:16 -0500), Dave Morris (fqmorris at gmail.com) wrote:

> [...] a West vs East Coast logic [...]
 
The review doesn't split Pynchon's works into West vs East coast. 
 
It does links Col49, VL, & IV as a California Cycle, and it calls them "West Coast chamber pieces."
 
It does not, however, link V, GR, M&D, and AtD as "East coast" or by any other place; it simply classifies these four as "his more formidable symphonies."
 
> If there is validity int thinking about a "California cycle" it probably has more to do with a shorter, more accessible format.

Yes, the review pretty much says that CoL, VL, and IV have this "shorter, more accessible format" in common, but the review also suggests that this "cycle" works together like one larger work, a work that IV "deepens."
 
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"Inherent Vice deepens Pynchon’s developing California cycle, following The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland with a shaggy-dog epic of Eden mansionized and Mansonized beyond recognition—yet never quite beyond hope. Across five decades now, he’s more or less alternated these West Coast chamber pieces with his more formidable symphonies (V; Gravity’s Rainbow; Mason & Dixon; Against the Day)." -- http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html?industryid=47141
 
 
 
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