#thomas pynchon

If it’s mid-winter, then we must be in the thick of opera season- am I right?  Now, I hear some of ...

When I first read David Foster Wallace’s notoriously difficult novel Infinite Jest in the fall of 2008, just weeks after ...

I’m taking the wheel for Rebecca this week, tracking the books I’m trying to squeeze in under the wire for ...

Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to his critical darling The Master is an adaption of Thomas Pychon’s 2009 goofball of ...

In 1981, Cormac McCarthy, at age 48, was named one of the first MacArthur Foundation Fellows (more commonly known these ...

I don’t eat watermelon during the winter. I don’t drink warm apple cider on the fourth of July. I don’t ...

Let it not be said that the folks at Ladbrokes don’t have a sense of humor. There, at the end ...

The Simpsons is famous for many things — being the longest running American sitcom (and animated series) ever, unleashing a ...

The site Big Huge Labs lets you create your own motivational (or demotivational, whichever you prefer) posters. It’s a lot ...

People often ask me — since I’m always reading more than one book at once — how do you keep ...

Ladbroke’s, one of those English gambling houses that seem to have a prop for everything, has an extensive board for ...