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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 | 3:03 pm
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The Crying of Lot 49
An Olive Edition The classic novel of conspiracy and self-knowledge—by the legendary Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial Carton Qty: 92 Selling Territory: USCOM 25,000 PUBLISHING HISTORY Also Available: Harper Perennial (modern classics pb) (9780060913076) On Sale: 11/3/2009 Fiction pb 9780061849923 $10.00 ($13.00) 208 pages; 4 1/2 x 7 1/8 • Olive Editions are lower-priced small format editions of some of our bestselling titles with hip and beautiful package designs, available for a limited time. http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/harper/515_1021_323838373033.htm Current Mood:  annoyed | | Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | 9:33 am
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| | Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | 6:19 pm
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Tidngs of Explicit Comfort, Feasible Joy ...
"Then for another moment it seems that all the Christmas bells in the creation are about to join in chorus-that all their random pealing will be, this one time, coordinated, in harmony, present with tidings of explicit comfort, feasible joy." (GR, Pt. I,. p. 70) http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0712&msg=123657Also ... "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,-- the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy December, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults...." (M&D, Ch. 1, p. 5) http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/mason/index.htmlhttp://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=113298And in memoriam ... http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0712&msg=123655God bless us all, everyone ... Current Mood: working | | Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | 2:14 pm
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Inherent Vice
It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there . . . or . . . if you were there, then you . . . or, wait, is it . . . [p. 28] http://booksellers.dk.com/static/pdf/penguinpress-summer09.pdfNew Pynchon Details--Inherent Vice Penguin has posted its Summer '09 catalog online (PDF format), and it includes some details as to Pynchon's new novel. http://www.conversationalreading.com/2008/11/new-pynchon-det.htmlPublisher Penguin's catalog reveals details about the upcoming book by Thomas Pynchon. As previously reported, it will be a detective novel hitting shelves next summer; the news is the title, "Inherent Vice." And details about the plot: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/11/thomas-pynchons.html( Read more... )http://mavienocturne.blogspot.com/2008/11/un-extrait-du-nouveau-pynchon.html [catalog p. 44] Current Mood:  excited | | Friday, November 21st, 2008 | 8:17 am
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Heliconius tristero
"The name 'Tristero' derives from Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49, and refers to a shadowy Renaissance cult figure that inspired a secret, independent postal system in modern suburban California. Because the red forewing patch pattern is referred to as 'postman' (Emsley, 1963), tristero seemed an appropriate name for a species that has emulated the local erato-melpomene mimicry complex so effectively that it has remained undetected until now." http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/docs/tristero1996.pdf Current Mood: working | | Saturday, October 4th, 2008 | 9:42 am
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| | Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | 2:55 am
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Damn ...
--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Steven Moore <mooresteven@att.net> wrote: From: Steven Moore <mooresteven@att.net> Subject: eGad: Penguin Press announces a new Thomas Pynchon novel for August 2009 To: gaddis-l@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 5:26 PM according to a sales rep at Penguin (the same guy who gave me advance notice of a few years ago). No title or description yet; will pass along info as I learn more.
Steve
Current Mood: excited | | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | 10:02 pm
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| | Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | 10:32 am
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Pynchon Pre-Birthday Bash a Regular Krupp Wingding
Friday May 02, 2008 Red Hook's Freebird Books is throwing a party Sunday afternoon in honor of Thomas Pynchon's upcoming 71st birthday, but the announcements the store's co-owner, Peter Miller, has been sending out are already making waves. One writer who received the invitation feting "that lovable recluse and buck-toothed prophet of paranoia" wrote Miller to complain that "it is insulting to characterize Mr. Pynchon by his teeth," then found fault with the menu, which consists of "foodstuffs famously vomited by Gravity's Rainbow's Tyrone Slothrop: burgers, homefries, chef's salad with French dressing, Moxie, after-dinner mints, Clark bars, salted peanuts, and 'the cherry from some Radcliffe girl's old-fashioned.'" "There are many wonderful foods in Pynchon's work, starting with bananas and good coffee. perhaps," this unnamed writer chastises. "Mason & Dixon... is loaded with some interesting foods...What Slothrop vomits is a (light) comic riff on bad food in our fast-food overprocessed world. Honor Pynchon's life-embracing love of the right kind of food, if one is having a party for him, I say." "I will say, in full disclosure, that I surely do not have the sense of humor Mr. Pynchon does," the letter winds down, "so perhaps I am too earnest and am making mountains out of what Pynchon would not." Perhaps. Anyway, if Miller isn't hauled into jail for postering party fliers around the neighborhood—and he reports that he's already gotten one warning—the party's set to begin at 3 p.m. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/party_hopping/pynchon_prebirthday_bash_a_regular_krupp_wingding_83930.asp Current Mood: excited | | Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 | 4:44 pm
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Tidings of Explict Comfort, Feasible Joy
"Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,--the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing' Lids of various Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with PieSpices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults...." --Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, Ch. 1, pp. 2-3 "Then for another moment it seems that all the Christmas bells in the creation are about to join in chorus--that all their random pealing will be, this one time, coordinated, in harmony, present with tidings of explcit comfort, feasible joy." --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Pt. I, p. 70 Current Mood: working | | Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | 10:42 am
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| | Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 | 9:50 am
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Nobel Prize Announcements
The announcement of the Nobel Laureates for the year is made on the same day that the Nobel Prize-Awarding Institutions choose from among the names recommended by the respective Nobel Committees. Immediately after the vote, a press conference is held by the concerned Nobel Prize Awarder. [...] Literature - Thursday, October 11, 1:00 p.m. CET (at the earliest) http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/7:00 a.m. Eastern, 6:00 Central, 5:00 Mountain, 4:00 Pacific ... Current Mood: excited | | Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 | 9:26 am
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Adobe HQ puzzle solved
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal - 4:36 PM PDT Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Two technology workers have solved the puzzle presented by rotating lights high atop the Adobe Systems Inc. headquarters in San Jose. At a press conference at San Jose's city hall Tuesday, Mayor Chuck Reed and an Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) marketing executive presented the code crackers, a computer science engineer named Bob Mayo and an engineer named Mark Snesrud, to the world. What they discovered is that the rotating lights on the adobe building were spelling out an entire novel, "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon. ( Read more... )http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/08/13/daily35.html Current Mood: amused | | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 6:52 pm
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What Tarot Card are You?
You are the Hanged ManSelf-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound. With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain. The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes. The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights. What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. "All his hopeful cards are reversed, most unhappily of all the Hanged Man, who is supposed to be upside down to begin with, telling of his secret hopes and fears..." --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Pt. IV, p.738 http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/slothrop.html Current Mood: working | | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 | 1:52 pm
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The Ultimate eBook Experiment: Reading in the Bathtub
by Chris Steib May 08, 2007 10:26 PM EDT (Updated: May 09, 2007 10:02 AM EDT) In an April 17 posting on his blog PRINT IS DEAD, Jeff Gomez reflected on a comment Margaret Atwood made at the 2007 London Book Fair that summed up what the famous author believed to be the major pitfall of digital books: unlike "regular books," she argued, ebooks cannot be read in the bathtub. Ms. Atwood is not alone in this line of thinking: in fact, similar comments have been posted right here on Gather about the Sony Reader, particularly in regards to how it simply cannot measure up to good-old-fashioned paper books. Well, dear readers, I have endeavored to put this "theory" to rest by pitting my new Sony Reader against a copy of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in the environment Ms. Atwood so boldly claims is the true domain of paper -- NOT digital -- books.... http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976995981 Current Mood: working | | Friday, May 11th, 2007 | 2:05 pm
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Zak Smith @ B&N NYC
Friday, May 18th, 2007 7 pm Zak Smith in Chelsea, NY Zak Smith will sign copies of his highly acclaimed Pictures Showing What Happens on Every Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow at Barnes and Noble. Barnes & Noble 675 6th Ave. NY, NY. 10010 tel. 212 727 1227 http://www.tinhouse.com/events.htmPictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow Zak Smith Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) has been called a modern Finnegans Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers’ experience of the twentieth-century classic. Smith has created more than 750 pages of drawings, paintings, and photos—each derived from a page of Pynchon’s novel. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war—a burned-out Konigstiger tank, a melted machine gun—coexist alongside such fantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the “stumbling bird” and “Grigori the octopus.” Smith has said he aimed to be “as literal as possible” in interpreting Gravity’s Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative and powerful as the prose they honor. http://www.tinhouse.com/books/catalog_gravitys.htmZak Smith's Illustrations For Each Page of Gravity's Rainbow http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/title.htmZak Smith http://www.zaxart.com/http://www.myspace.com/zakzsmithhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_SmithZak Sabbath http://www.zaksabbath.com/http://www.barbedwirekiss.com/http://www.myspace.com/zaksabbathhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm2280859/ Current Mood: excited | | Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 | 10:31 am
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| | Saturday, April 28th, 2007 | 5:43 pm
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Call for Papers
Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon’s Counternarratives International Pynchon Week 2008 June 11-14 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany What better place to discuss Pynchon’s new novel Against the Day (and all his other texts) than in the Zone? In 2008, the biannual Pynchon conference takes place in Munich, Germany, just as Mondaugen’s city celebrates its 850th birthday (and Europe goes soccer-crazy during the European Cup). The American Studies department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität invites scholars and students, amateurs and novices, fans and critics to get together for this four-day event. While a good share of the conference is to be dedicated to Against the Day, it is of course open to all things Pynchon, and all proposals are welcome. A special invitation goes out to scholars from disciplines other than literary studies. The form of presentations can either be individual papers, media presentations, or panels. If you want to present, send your abstract (500-750 words for individual presentations, 1,000 to 1,500 words for panels) to: sascha.poehlmann@lrz.uni-muenchen.de The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2007; decisions will be made by January 15. A full program will be published shortly after, with details about the location and more suggestions about accommodation. There is no participation fee. If you have any questions, send an e-mail to the address above. The conference website is located at: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~poehlmann/IPW2008/index.htm Current Mood: excited | | Monday, April 23rd, 2007 | 12:29 pm
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