Pynchon
Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.
William, 1590?–1662, English colonist in America.
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Thomas Pynchon was still making fun of it last year in his novel Bleeding Edge.
In Japan, Zima Haz No Zexual Preference | Jake Adelstein, Angela Erika Kubo | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou, and the book, have now been compared to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
The Author Of The Summer's Hit Paranoid Fantasy Opens Up | William O’Connor | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPynchon is the author of several novels and one short-story collection.
Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.
Thomas Pynchon Meets His Match: The Internet | Alexander Nazaryan | September 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMove over, Pynchon—the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War.
Joseph McElroy’s ‘Cannonball’ Is the Meta Iraq War Novel | Tom LeClair | July 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Hutchinson says of him: Mr. Pynchon was a gentleman of learning, as well as religion.
The Devil in Britain and America | John AshtonIt was first settled by a brave trader, William Pynchon, and became a city in 1852.
Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for Pynchon
/ (ˈpɪntʃən) /
Thomas (Ruggles). born 1937, US novelist, author of V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1967), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Mason and Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006)
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