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Camper Van Beethoven Are Possibly the Only Band to Have Made Corn Sound Seductive
David Lowery looks back at the beautiful 'All Her Favourite Fruit' from the band's 1989 album 'Key Lime Pie'.
Thomas Pynchon and the Myth of the Reclusive Author
Pynchon's cameo in the upcoming movie version of Inherent Vice will represent the first time the author has appeared in public in decades, but it's not as if the man is some kind of ghost.
We Await Silent Thomas's Empire
Pynchon’s newest novel, The Bleeding Edge, comes out next week. Penguin released a teaser, which I skeptically read up to the point, a few paragraphs in, where a boy named Ziggy tells his mom that a tree "doesn't suck."
Thomas Pynchon's New Heroine Is Caught Up in Some Sort of Virtual-Reality Game
And you'll have to wait around another month or so, when the reclusive author drops 'Bleeding Edge', to understand why. Here's an excerpt to tide you over.
It's OK to Not Be A Luddite: Thomas Pynchon, Digitized
For all the bombed out, drug adled techno-anxieties that scream across the works of American novelist Thomas Pynchon, news of the reclusive author's e-book foray is, at first glance, the equivalent of a 20-megaton V-2 rocket blast. But, sure enough...