Pynchon

[pin-chuhn]

noun

1. Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.

2. William, 1590?–1662, English colonist in America.

Pynchon

/ ˈpɪntʃən /

noun

1. 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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Controversy at the Smithsonian, a Jazz Age caper from Thomas Pynchon, Rome’s long history and more.

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Controversy at the Smithsonian, a Jazz Age caper from Thomas Pynchon, Rome’s long history and more.

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Our 10 recommended books for October include the first new novel from Thomas Pynchon in more than a decade, a pandemic tale from Susan Straight and a memoir from Susan Orlean.

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At 88, in his first novel in more than a decade, Pynchon turns not to dystopian modern America, but to the comforts of noir fiction.

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With next week’s publication of his ninth novel, “Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon’s secret 20th century is at last complete.

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