IV Blog Teaser

[Robin Landseadel]

Mark Kohut:

> it seems impossible to me to think he wrote it fast

Me neither. And the genre-shifting stylistic mish-mosh that pours out  
of Against the Day has layers that feel old and others that read as  
apologies—confessions of previous authorial crimes. On another layer  
it's Pynchon's parody of a Pynchon novel. Whatever the hell else is  
going on in Against the Day, don't blame the outcome on lack of time  
to write the dang-ed thing. It really is Gravity's Rainbow's back  
story and it's got its heart & historical citations in the right  
places. While reading the book from time to time milk will shoot out  
your nose. And so it goes.

Rich:
	Vineland, AtD, and pbly IV, too were written quickly.

I'd say the author spent exactly enough time on Inherent Vice, like it  
was in the back of his mind all along, but he freak-in' forgot to  
write it  down for some damned reason or another. Maybe it was the  
bullets, maybe it was the broads, but most likely it was . . .