Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, I have wondered if he at least conceived it---IV--- during those
long years of writing the longer books
and maybe started it (I bet he is an outline first kind of writer, but
pure speculation) with 'his left hand" as
that phrase for offhand works goes.
I personally cannot see it 'in' Vineland in any way, but I sometimes
lack imagination.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:15 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Not much (or any I can think of, really) overlap between M&D and the other two. But it's interesting to think about how the private eye genre might have been floating around between ATD and VL. ATD ends with Lew Archer [link to Deep Archer?] as the hard-boiled LA detective. Was IV possibly spawned at this time, as private eye material that he decided not to incorporate into VL?
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>
>>Yes, we know almost nothing about Pynchon's working habits and working
>>attempts. That unscientific and highly fallible sense of
>>circumstantial evidence
>>leads me to think he worked on at least three books at once since GR.
>>We know what they were. The last of those was published in 2006. Since
>>then he has written
>>two others both now published. I think that writing and living are
>>joined with him, so I think he is writing something new. Always.
>>Until.
>>
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