Thomas Pynchon to release new novel in August

[Joe Allonby]

My thoughts exactly, Mark. Who knows what else he has sitting on the shelf.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> So many unknowledgeable journalists,---can't be helped; no time-- like most readers, think TRP, like most writers, wrote his novels one after another. John Leonard knew better (and was the reviwer to tell us that).
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> I do and will wonder when IV was started ON PAPER. (Bet it was in his game plan mind, as he expressed very early about most of the others, for awhile. )
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> --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Thomas Pynchon to release new novel in August
>> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 9:24 AM
>> Inside Examiner.com
>> Fringe Culture Examiner
>> Thomas Pynchon to release new novel in August
>> July 11, 5:02 PM
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>> Thomas Pynchon has been called many things – Pulitzer
>> Prize contender,
>> anarchist sympathizer, iconoclast, and America’s
>> best-known literary
>> recluse next to JD Salinger – but prolific is typically
>> not one of
>> them.  That may be changing now that the author will
>> be releasing a
>> new novel entitled Inherent Vice via Penguin Press on
>> August 4th.
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>> Pynchon fanatics (who also count fellow “fringe culture
>> auteurs” Don
>> DeLillo, David Cronenberg, Alan Moore, William Gibson and
>> the entire
>> writing staff of “The Simpsons” among their ranks)
>> previously had to
>> wait 17 years for a new release between 1973's National
>> Book
>> Award-winning Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, released in
>> 1990.  Mason
>> & Dixon followed seven years later.
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>> Then, in 2006, Pynchon dropped Against the Day on his
>> unsuspecting
>> readership - a 1,085 page (in hardcover!)
>> multi-generational saga set
>> against a backdrop of a fantastical, steampunk,
>> turn-of-the-century
>> America.
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>> Inherent Vice will not only mark Pynchon’s fastest
>> turnaround on a
>> project in forty years, but also represents his first very
>> foray into
>> the world of crime fiction (hell, the dust jacket even
>> looks like a
>> Elmore Leonard book just waiting to happen).  Here’s
>> an official
>> synopsis from the folks at Penguin:
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>> It’s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his
>> ex-girlfriend.
>> Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a
>> plot to
>> kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens
>> to be in
>> love with. Easy for her to say. It’s the tail end of the
>> psychedelic
>> sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that “love” is another
>> of those words
>> going around at the moment, like “trip” or
>> “groovy,” except that this
>> one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds
>> himself
>> drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose
>> cast of
>> characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers,
>> a murderous
>> loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an
>> ex-con with a
>> swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a
>> mysterious
>> entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax
>> dodge set up
>> by some dentists.
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>> In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an
>> unaccustomed genre,
>> provides a classic illustration of the principle that if
>> you can
>> remember the sixties, you weren’t there…or…if you
>> were there, then
>> you…or, wait, is it…
>>
>> http://www.examiner.com/x-1551-Fringe-Culture-Examiner~y2009m7d11-Thomas-Pynchon-to-release-new-novel-in-August
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