{"id":1030,"date":"2006-07-14T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pynched\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T16:46:18","slug":"pynched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pynched","title":{"rendered":"Pynched"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a wee paranoiac, I heard that Vineland<\/a> was soon to be released. At that point, I’d only read V.<\/a>, and Lot 49<\/a>, but I’d made a stab at The Big One<\/a> (it took 4 attempts before I finally made it through).<\/p>\n

I read the notice in Pynchon Notes that the long-awaited new book from was soon to be released. As it turns out, the book wasn’t very good, and I’m convinced he put it out to keep his publisher off his back while he completed Mason & Dixon<\/a>. But at the time, it felt like a bit of literary history was going to occur.<\/p>\n

In fact, I actually had a dream about Vineland<\/em> before it came out. I was in a bookstore, and there was a large “dump” of the new hardcover, several months early! I picked up a copy and thumbed through it. When I woke, all I could remember of that dream-book was the back cover flap. It had an author bio that read, “Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow. He lives in New York City.”<\/p>\n

Below the text was a beautiful black-and-white photograph of an empty loft. Even as a teenager, my subconscious liked to mess with me.<\/p>\n

All of which gets me to the following question: Wouldn’t it be great if the book actually kept this title<\/a>?<\/p>\n

(Update: Slate contends that Pynchon may have spammed his own book’s Amazon page<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a wee paranoiac, I heard that Vineland was soon to be released. At that point, I’d only read V., and Lot 49, but I’d made a stab at The Big One (it took 4 attempts before I finally made it through). I read the notice in Pynchon Notes that the long-awaited new … <\/p>\n

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