The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles

[Rich Clavey]

If this is true, I am going to love this book....
Rich

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 6:32 PM
> WIRED MAGAZINE: ISSUE 17.08
> Mark Horowitz    
> 
> Interactive map of Pynchonia:
> 
>     Little known fact: Thomas Pynchon, the
> paranoid poet of the
>     information age, is LA's greatest
> writer. To be sure, Los Angeles
>     —whose aerial view he likened to a
> printed circuit board—has
>     always been central to the elusive
> writer's weird
>     weltanschauung, his hallucinogenic
> stir-fry of Cold War
>     hysteria, high tech anxiety, and
> low-brow pop-culture
>     references. But did you know he actually
> lived there in the '60s
>     and early '70s, while writing Gravity's
> Rainbow, the Moby-Dick
>     of rocket-science novels? His latest
> effort, Inherent Vice, is an
>     homage to those bygone days, plus
> something no one
>     expected from the notoriously private
> author: a
>     semiautobiographical romp. Set in the
> twilight of the
>     psychedelic '60s, Inherent Vice is
> stoner noir, a comic murder
>     mystery starring a detective who—like
> stories of Pynchon
>     himself—smokes bales of weed, obsesses
> over unseen
>     conspiracies, and relishes bad TV. (The
> Big Lebowski meets
>     The Big Sleep.) And if you map the novel
> against Pynchon's life
>     in LA, it really does tie the whole room
> together.
> 
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