Superlatives may get people's attention, but they don't do much to reward it. So if one were to hazard, for example, that novelist Thomas Pynchon's foreword to the new Plume edition of "Nineteen ...

Thomas Pynchon may have finally met his match. I don’t mean that another novelist has superseded him—the wily old postmodernist remains as fine a writer as we have. Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket from Penguin Press) With next week's publication of his ninth novel, "Shadow Ticket," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Images from Harper; Penguin Classics; Penguin Press; Little, Brown) Whatever book club you're in, Thomas Pynchon has you covered.

Thomas Pynchon's new behemoth of a book, "Against the Day," is likely to have readers responding in one of two ways; either they will think it is one of the greatest novels ever written, or they will ...

Recently an editor at the website Jezebel titled her essay on quarantine reading “You Don't Have to Read Gravity's Rainbow During Self-Isolation.” She instead recommended “trash” or books one had read ...

Could it be a conspiracy? More like fandom. Today is Thomas Pynchon’s birthday -- his 77th -- and to celebrate the author’s work, a faithful reader has dubbed May 8 Pynchon in Public Day. It’s not an ...

Brian Wilson and Thomas Pynchon have more in common than one may immediately think. Both are deeply experimental artists driven further and further away from the public eye—Wilson barely leaving his ...

Global conspiracy, apocalyptic fantasies, terrorist cells, cybernetics, ballistics, government intelligence, Jacobean tragedy, coded messages conveyed by courier, a screaming that comes across the sky ...

For half a century, Thomas Pynchon has been America's preeminent novelist of paranoia, the writer who sees patterns and connections where others find only the random detritus of history. His emblem ...

This morning, a rumor began going around that novelist Thomas Pynchon – author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Inherent Vice” – had died. Internet rumors and online misinformation are not exactly hard to ...