inherent Vice book trailer. HIS VOICE.

[Mark Kohut]

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Thomas Pynchon speaks! Author lends his voice to 'Inherent Vice' trailer
By Thom Geier <https://ew.com/author/thom-geier/>

Published on August 11, 2009 04:33PM EDT

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So it turns out that Thomas Pynchon really does sound like The Dude from *The
Big Lebowski*. Tracy Locke of The Penguin Press confirms that the reclusive
author narrates the trailer for his new book, *Inherent Vice*, which we
wrote about on Shelf Life yesterday
<https://ew.com/article/2009/08/10/pynchon-thomas-inherent-vice-trailer/>.
Of course, *Simpsons* fans might have recognized the voice from Pynchon’s
memorable guest appearance — with a paper bag over his head — in a 2004
episode of the long-running Fox series. (In fact, the *Wall Street
Journal* went
so far as to send the *Simpsons* clip and a Pynchon-voiced German TV spot
to a Michigan-based sound engineer and voice identification expert to
help prove
it’s Pynchon on the trailer
<http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/08/11/pynchon-revealed/>.)

Although the text of the trailer’s voiceover is not from *Inherent Vice*,
Locke says that Pynchon composed it himself. The trailer seems to channel
the voice of the book’s hero, a stoner private eye in ’70s L.A. named Doc
Sportello. Now the real question is: Does Pynchon also *look*like The Dude.

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