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[+] Alford,
Steven E., "Review of 'Mason & Dixon' "
"What is seldom observed in Pynchon’s works, but shouldn’t
be missed, is the beauty of his writing. . ."
[review - M&D - 1997] Mr. Alford's site contains many
more book reviews than
this one.
[+] Andersen, Af
Uffe, "Welcome Mr. Chance": 'Katalognummer 49 udbydes' "
". . . Tristeros kodeord W.A.S.T.E. (We Await Silent Tristero's Empire)
med S.M.I.T.T.E."
[review - COL49 - 1999 - Danish] 'The Crying Of Lot 49' was
translated into Danish by Arne Herløv Petersen in 1996, and reissued
three years later. This review was published in Sentura,
a magazine for film and literature.
[+] Bone,
James, "Who The Hell Is He?"
". . . At last, the great novelist spoke: "Get your fucking hand away from
me," he bellowed. "I don't like people taking my picture!"
[newspaper article - bio - 1998] Mr Bone, a journalist working
for The Times in New York went looking for the ultimate Pynchon picture.
He took it. The Sunday Times,
a Johannesburg, South Africa Sunday paper published the article again
on June, 7th, 1998.
[+] Bowman,
David, "Big Game. Pynchon hunters find it frighteningly
easy to track and catch their prey."
". . . CNN sent a camera crew to Pynchon's street to capture him on video.
It was kid stuff. It only took an afternoon. "Look! There he is!" "
[magazine article - bio - 1998] In online magazine Salon,
a magazine based in San Francisco.
[+] Boyd,
Greg, "All Lined Up. Pynchon goes long and connects again"
". . . The language is drunk on words, and Pynchon's infamously large vocabulary
requires that the reader have access to a pretty substantial dictionary."
[magazine review - M&D - 1997] In Eye
Weekly, a magazine based in Toronto, Canada.
[+] Brazell,
Bill, "Pynchon's Line Dance"
"Sloth from another angle is Patience, a Cardinal Virtue. And patience
has helped Pynchon do incredible homework."
[magazine review - M&D - 1997] In Metroactive,
a magazine based in San Fransisco.
[+] Burket,
Richard E., "The State Law Enforcement Apparatus as America:
Authority, Arbitrariness, and the "Force of Law" in Vineland"
"What emerges is a portrait of late twentieth-century America in which
critiques of the interestedness of law and its imbrication in relations
of power are ultimately irrelevant. Pynchon insists that we already know
that law is nothing without its enforcement and that enforcement is nothing
without force; we also know that law enforcement is far from a neutral,
disinterested practice. "
[article - Vineland - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University
Law Review, pp.727 - 759 (Volume 24, Number 3)
[+] Claudé,
Pierre, Sur Mason & Dixon
"Mais au-delà de l'anecdote, si riche soit-elle, l'auteur aborde des problèmes
graves, qui sont de tous les temps, en particulier celui de la domination
de l'homme par l'homme."
[critique - M&D - 1997 - français] Sur le site de l'APLV,
l'Association des Professeurs en Langues Vivantes, à Strasbourg.
[+] Collado-Rodrigueza,
Francisco, "Trespassing Limits: Pynchon's Irony and the
Law of the Excluded Middle"
". . . an attempt both to erode his readers' confidence in the validity
of the Artistotelian Law and to replace it by a new and more comprehensive
paradigm."
[article - general - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University
Law Review, pp.470 - 503 (Volume 24, Number 3)
[+] Corey,
Irwin, "Professor Irwin Corey Accepts the National Book
Award for Thomas Pynchon"
"However... accept this financial stipulation - ah - stipend in behalf
of, uh, Richard Python for the great contribution and to quote from
some of the missiles which he has contributed...
[bio & FUN - April 18,1974] Hilarious speech.
[+] Nicolas
d'Estienne d'Orves, "L’oeil du kaléidoscope"
"C’est tout ou rien : avec Pynchon, on ne tranche pas. "
[critique - VL/V - 2001 - français]
[+] Doolittle,
Ed, "Review of Slow Learner: Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon"
"one is left with a guilty feeling after reading this book".
[review - SL - 1998] Canadian review
[+] Jean-Pierre
Dufreigne, "Pynchon, géomètre de l'Amérique"
"Et si ce qu'il brossait était son propre portrait à travers deux siècles
d'Amérique bordélique?"
[review - M&D - 2001 - français] A L'Express
[+] Fedirka,
Sarah, "Crossing Boundaries: Social Borders & Alternative
Realities in The Crying of Lot 49"
". . . Pynchon's vision of America is that of a society in an advanced
state of "entropic decline." " In the Oklahoma City University Law Review
[article - COL49 - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University
Law Review, pp. 608 - 623 (Volume 24, Number 3)
[+] Feeney,
Mark, "In Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon Merges Wild
Burlesque And Desperate Seriousness To Create His Own Map Of Ameridan
History"
[review - M&D - 1997] In The Boston Globe
[+] Feldman,
Charles, 'Where's Thomas Pynchon? CNN tracks down literary
world's deliberate enigma.'
An amusing story; and rather irrelevant.
[+] Fischer,
Norman, "Civic Republican Political/Legal Ethics and
Echoes of the Classical Historical Novel in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon"
". . . Mason & Dixon is a unique work, both republican and anti-republican,
both echoing the traditional historical novel and questioning and overturning
its premises. "
[article - M&D - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University
Law Review
[+] Fitzgerald,
Judith, Judith Fitzgerald on Writer's Writer Thomas Pynchon
Originally featured in The Toronto Star's 4 May 1997 edition. Ms. Fitzgerald
has a beautiful sight (no pun intended)
[review - M&D 1997]
[+] Fogel,
Jean-François, "Sur la piste du 'Pynch'"
[bio - 1985 - français]Article biographique dans Libération (11
octobre 1985). Excellent!
[+] , "Thomas
Pynchon and the South Bay" [bio - 1999?]
In The Aesthetic. On Mr. Pynchon's staying in Manhattan Beach during
the Sixties
[+] G.,
T. (sic), Article: 'Mason & Dixon'
[critique - M&D - 2001 -français] ". . . Mais s'il a fallu à Thomas
Pynchon dix ans pour écrire ce volumineux (comme les précédents) roman,
il nous en faudrait au moins autant pour voir tout ce que cette ligne
recouvre." Dans 'la Matricule des anges'.
[+] Garner,
Dwight, 'The crying over Lot 49 of Thomas Pynchon's letters'
About Mr. Pynchon's former agent Candida Donadio, who sold private correspondence
to collector Carter Burden. A Salon.com article.
[+] Gordon,
Andrew, "Smoking Dope With Thomas Pynchon. A Sixties Memoir"
[bio - 1999]
Originally published in 'The Vineland Papers', Thomas Pynchon during
the Sixties
[+] Grolleau,
Frédéric, "Les hommes qui arpentaient lentement" [critique
- M&D - 2001 -français]
". . . la réalité des sens ne coïncidant presque jamais avec la réalité qu’appréhendent
le langage et la raison." Sur parutions.com
[+] Hansen,
Robert J., "Law, History and the Subversion of Postwar
America in Thomas Pynchons's The Crying of Lot 49"
[article - COL49 - 1999]
In the Oklahoma City University Law Review
[+] Hawthorne,
Mark, "Homoerotic Bonding as Escape from Heterosexual
Responsibility in Pynchon's Slow Learner"
[article - GR - 1999]
". . . where the homosexual's closet is negative, Pynchon's homosocial
retreat or hideout is positive."
[+] Hinds,
Elisabeth Jane Wall, "Thomas Pynchon, Wit, and the Work
of the Supernatural"
[article - COL49 - 1999]
"With his puns, Pynchon teases all of us paranoids, making possible a more-than-metaphorical
causal process at work in his characters' universe." In the Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association
[+] Holdsworth,
Caroline, "Dulcinea and Pynchon's V."
[article - V - 1999]
From: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
[+] Holdsworth,
Caroline, "Cervantine Echoes in Early Pynchon"
[article - COL49 - 1998]
From: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
[+] Hollander,
Charles, "Does McClintic Sphere in V. Stand For Charles
Mingus?"
[article - V - 1999]
Nice article (as is usual the case with mr. Hollander)
[+] Hollander,
Charles, "Pynchon's Inferno"
[bio]
At Otto Sell's excellent site
[+] Hyperarts.com Contains
a lot of background information on V., Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon.
Mr Ware's advice for newbies is excellent. Also: cover art, bookshop
and more. Very good design.
[site]
[+] Keough, Peter, "Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon surveys the making of America" [review - M&D - 1997] ". . . an encyclopedic, picaresque extravaganza that encloses a moving meditation on mortality. . ."
[+] Kim, Walter, "Pynchon's
tiresome mind games" [review - M&D - 1997]
Review based on an incomplete lecture (400 pp.) of Mason & Dixon
[+] Klein,
Michelle, "The Art Of Communication"
[summary - COL49 - 2001]
A Gradesaver article
[+] Kocela,
Chris, "The Ends of Legal Fetishism: Oedipa Maas as Postmodern
Cartographer" [article - COL49 - 1999]
OKLA
[+] Koning,
Christina, 'Vineland The Good'
[review - COL49 - 1990]
In The Guardian, mr. Pynchon's favourite paper
[+] Körner,
Magnus, P°a Gransen ... '. alba.nu (2001). Translated
by Hans-Jacob Nilsson Albert Bonnier Förlag 2001. Norvegian.
[article - COL49 - 1999]
[+] Kuppsch,
Kenneth, "Finding V." [article - V. - 1998 ]
". . . but rather to challenge basic assumptions and formulae of detective
and historical fictions, while at the same time adhering to their most
traditional demands"
[+] Larsson,
Douglas, Dr. Larsson goes further where Steve Weisenburger stops:
expanding -and sometimes correcting- the information as provided in
Dr. Weisenburger's fantastic Gravity's Rainbow encyclopedia
[site - GR - 1999]
[+] Lawrence,
David W., Counterfeiting America in Mason & Dixon [article
- M&D - 1999]
OKLA
[+] Levi,
Robert A., "Who taught Thomas Pynchon Physics?"
[bio - 2000]
A small article in the American Physical Society News (February 2000).
[+] Livingstone, David B., 'Mystery Train'. (1997) [review - M&D - 1997] In Spike Magazine
[+] Mars-Jones,
Adam, 'How A Quaker Gets His Oats' [review
- M&D - 1997]
Published in The Observer, June 15, 1997.
[+] Mattesich, Stephan, "Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces" [review - M&D - 1997] ""
[+] Mattesich,
Stephan,'Ekphrasis, Escape, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying
of Lot 49' [article -COL49 - 1997]
Very, very good. (1998)
[+] McCarron,
Bill,"Catch 22, Gravity's Rainbow and Lawlessness"
" "
[+] McDaniel,
Douglas, 'thomas pynchon: the techngnostic prophet of
paranoid literature' [misc - 2000]
In AccesMagazine, November 13, 2000
[+] Millard,
Bill, 'Ducking The Snovian Disjunction: The both/and Logic
Of Mason & Dixon' '
[article - M&D - 1999]
[+] Moran,
Jacques, "Dix ans après Vineland, Thomas Pynchon revient
sur la scène littéraire avec un grand roman épique, Mason & Dixon" [FR
- review - M&D - 2001]
"Thomas Pynchon aime ses personnages, qu'il trimballe depuis quarante ans
dans des aventures " abracadabrantesques " sans perdre une miette des menus
plaisirs de la vie " Dans L'Humanité du 4 janvier 2001
[+] Moody,
Rick, "Surveyors of the Enlightenment" [review - M&D
- 19]
One of the very first in-depth reviews. In the Atlantic Monthly
[+] Moran,
Jay P, "How is Pynchon Related to the Law?" [1999]
In the Oklahoma City University Law Review
[+] Not Bored,
Bill (sic), 'Raptor, Rapist, Rapture: The Dark Joys of
Social Control in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland'
[article - COL49 - 1999]
On a strange, situationist site
[+] Offmann,
Craig, "How to get a blurb from Thomas Pynchon."
[article - COL49 - 1999]
A small Salon.com article
[+] ottosell.de From Oldenburg, Northern Germany, Otto Sell's ACHTUNG offers you a wide range of postmodern authors, lots of links, articles, Pynchonian horoscopes and much more.
[+] Pelovitz,
David, "Linear Pynchon"
[article - M&D - 1997]
at ezone.org
[+] Perez-Llantada
Auria, Carmen, "Fiction at a Bifurcation Point: From Newtonian
Law to Postmodern Uncertainty in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon" [article
- M&D - 1999]
Oklahoma City University Law Review
[+] Plimpton,
George, "The Whole Sick Crew" [article - V. - 1963]
The legendary review from the New York Times (April 21, 1963), at Spermatikos
Logos. George Plimpton was one of the first critics to recognize Thomas
Pynchon's talent.
[+] Pynchon Notes Home of the academic periodical devoted to Thomas Pynchon since 1979. The site contains general information and an excellent index. Edited by John Krafft (Florida) & Bernard Duijfhijzen (Wisconsin).
[+] Pomona California based Pomona college (another San Narciso) contains a lot of biographical data, information on the novels, unpublished miscellenea and much more. This site is the mother of all other Pynchon sites.
[+] Reilly,
Terry, "Gravity's Rainbow, The Anabaptists Rebellions
in Germany, 1525-35, and The Unfortunate Traveller"
[article - GR - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University Law
Review
[+] Rosenbaum,
Ron, "Pynchon and Crunch: Heroes of the Underworld Wide
Web"
"a prophet who tells us more about the deep structure of contemporary culture
than any other artist or political theorist I know of "
[article - COL49 -2001] In the New York Observer
[+] Samway,
Patrtick H., "New Treasures at the Pierpont Morgan Library"" [bio
-2000]
The Donadio letters
[+] Schmidt,
Peter, "Line, Vortex and Mouth. On first reading Mason & Dixon"
[article - M&D - 1999]Four parts: 2, 3, 4.
[+] Sherman, David R., "A Case Study in Legal Deconstruction: History, Community and Authority in The Crying of Lot 49" [article - COL49 - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University Law Review
[+] Siegel,
Mark, "Pynchon's Legal Landscape: Justice in 'Mason & Dixon"
[article - M&D - 1999 ] In the Oklahoma City University
Law Review
[+] Siegel, Jules, "Who
Is Thomas Pynchon And Why Did He take of With My Wife?"
[bio - 1977] Famous Playboy piece - or is it infamous?
[+] Spencer,
Nicholas, 'Clausewitz and Pynchon: Post-Romantic War in
Gravity's Rainbow'
[article - GR - 1999]
[+] Spencer,
Nicholas, "The "Law" of Simulated War in Gravity's Rainbow"
[article - GR - 1999] In the Oklahoma City University Law
Review
[+] The Modern Word
(Spermatikos Logos) Maybe the oldest, and most certainly the best Pynchon
site on the web, New York based Libyrinth, created and maintained by
Dr. Laurence Daw, and Allan B. Ruch, well, hmm, has it all -included
a spectacular graphical guide to Gravity's Rainbow!
[+] Thoreen,
David, The President's Emergency War Powers and the Erosion
of Civil Liberties in Pynchon's Vineland
". . . in Vineland, he has documented some of the attendant threats to
our individual civil liberties. . . "
[article - Vineland - 1999] Oklahoma City University Law
Review
[+] Vanderbeke,
Dirk, "Vineland in the Novels of John Barth and Thomas
Pynchon"
". . . mark a cultural situation which bears some resemblance to mythical
ways of worldmaking. America has to some extent returned to its origins
[article - VL -1998]
[+]waste.org 'Love the Dolphins - Write by Waste, She Said.' The kind people at waste host different email discussion lists. One of the oldest discussion lists on the internet -archives dating back to 1992!- is devoted to 'pretty anything Pynchon related'.
[+] Wayne,
Theodore, "The Sound of a Lot of Furious Crying: Moving
Past the Present in The Sound and the Fury and Thomas Pynchon's The
Crying of Lot 49"
". . . a mystery whose willful obfuscation and numerous red herrings add
up only after a few readings"
[article - COL49 -2001] A Gradesaver article
[+] Webster,
Mark, "Vineland retains Pynchon's sense of the absurd"
"Could the years be mellowing Pynchon? No matter, his talents remain sharp.
. ."
[review - Vineland - 1990] In The Tech
[+] Weisenburger,
Steven, "Pynchon Surveys Troubled Land"
". . . A myth of American origins, the novel thinks about how science works
in collusion with empire."
[review - M&D - 1997]
[+] Welch,
Rodney, "The country's most private writer breaks his
silence"
". . . a thoughtful meditation on loss, redemption and time." [review
- M&D - 1997] A mindspring.com article
[+] Willey,
David, (untitled review)
". . . both totally wacky and absolutely moving . . ."
[review - M&D - 1997] In The Minnesota Daily, a campus
paper
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