/lit/ - Literature

Are there any writers similar to him but like dark and depressing instead of goofy and irreverent?

checking google once a while
>Pynchon still alive
good news
>DFW still dead
good news

Agree or disagree?
1. Mason & Dixon (4.1/5)
2. Against the Day (4.03/5)
3. Gravity’s Rainbow (4.0/5)
4. V. (3.96/5)
5. Inherent Vice (3.78/5)
6. Vineland (3.73/5)
7. The Crying of Lot 49 (3.69/5)
8. Bleeding Edge (3.60/5)
9. Slow Learner (3.52/5)

Sort of an odd-looking duck, wasn't he. But there's something about his eyes.

> When [Thomas Pynchon]’s parents came to visit, he introduced his mother this way: “Jules, this is my mother. She’s an anti-Semite. I just didn’t want my children to surround themselves with Jews.” I remember her as an exceptionally beautiful woman, all cut glass, ivory and sable. I believe she had been a nurse, had a lot of Irish in her and was a Catholic. Though Mr. Pynchon was a Protestant, she raised their children in her own faith. Tom was the oldest. Then came Judith, about five years younger. The youngest was John.

When is he gonna write another one? Will he just die and leave Bleeding Edge as his last book?

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>>21879271
>official /lit/-discord
>not officially sanctioned by 4chan
Anon, go back to plebbit. Also, that server is going to quickly get nuked by Discords TOS, if you're gonna set up an "edgy racist 4chan server" do it on Matrix instead or something. Not that newfags are that tech literate.

So Pynchon doesn't write novels very often and only one of his novels have ever been adapted into different media. How exactly does he make a living? I highly doubt that Gravity's Rainbow and V. where such best sellers that he's been able to live of those for years.

>There were letters. Eventually, the total was something like 30. They began from Seattle, where he worked on the Boeing company magazine. I remember one from Florida. He was then living with a girl and they had gone to visit her family. A cute preteen attracted Tom’s notice enough for him to mention her lasciviously

http://shipwrecklibrary.com/the-modern-word/sl-siegel-playboy/

So this is /lit/‘s hero?

How is he so adept at loose associations (standard characteristic of schizophrenia, psychosis) without losing Logos, rationality (standard characteristic of a non-psychotic mind)?

This handsome devil!

How is it even possible to be this based?

>be me, reclusive author Thomas Pynchon
>decide it's finally time to go outside
>walk around NYC
>looks and smells like shit
>ride subway
>have ribs broken by a Mexican amateur boxer for no reason
>accosted by a transvestite just moments after, who starts wailing on me when I say I'm not interested
>stumble out of Subway on Canal Street, lungs punctured, bleeding from my mouth
>Caroline Calloway runs up to me and asks if she can paint my portrait in return for $200
>go home and hang myself


We're not getting another novel.

When is his next book coming out?

Was he CIA?

I don't want to make any wild accusations here, but nobody has ever seen him and Sca-Ji in the same room at the same time.