Pynchon Links
- At January 13, 2021
- By Spermatikos Logos
- In Pynchon, The Modern Word
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Offsite Links
This page contains links to other Pynchon-related Web sites. Online articles, reviews, and papers may be found under the appropriate section of Spermatikos Logos, and will not be reprinted here. If we have omitted any sites, please contact us!
Main Pynchon Resources
Major Sites
ThomasPynchon.com — Tim Ware’s amazing site is the most complete Pynchon resource on the Web, and contains wikis for each of Pynchon’s major books.
Vheissu — A slightly enigmatic page with a Pynchon chronology, cover scans, and papers. Contains the best Pynchon bibliography on the Web.
The Pomona Pynchon Page — Officially known as the “San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Home Page,” this large site has a treasure house of information on Pynchon and his works, including a biography and information about all his novels.
Pynchon Notes Archive — The Pynchon Notes journal ran from 1979 to 2009. The Open Library of Humanities now maintains the archives.
Secondary Sites
Wikipedia Pynchon Entry — The Pynchon page at the ever-useful Wikipedia site.
Pynchon Index — This German site lists and organizes dozens of Pynchon links. Contains many links to German-language sites not featured here. (German & English)
Reading Pynchon — Utz Klöppelt’s Pynchon blog is dedicated to “mapping works and contexts,” and has a newsletter. (German & English)
Pynchon in Public — This podcast advertises itself as the “world’s most sadistic book club.”
pynhead — Ariss DerHovanessian’s site contains some excerpts from Pynchon’s novels and an essay.
SparkNotes on The Crying of Lot 49 – Kyle Hawkins’ online notes and commentary to Lot 49; part of the SparkNotes guides for students.
Mason & Dixon Reader – Toby Levy’s “Mason & Dixon: Three Pages a Day,” now hosted by Vheissu. [PDF]
Peter Schmidt’s Mason & Dixon Reading Notes – Broken down into 78 chapter summaries, Schmidt provides notes and plot synopsis.
Biblioklept — A wonderful blog about literature, Biblioklept often posts about Thomas Pynchon.
The Thomas Trail — A blog that analyzes the traces left behind by, ah, famous Thomases. Including Our Man.
Pynchon Files— A very stylish biographical page that has its focus on Pynchon’s reclusive life and times, and contains some information and speculation that you won’t find anywhere else. (Note: This useful site is no longer online; the link refers you to the site via Internet Archive)
Pynchonoid — A blog featuring Pynchon news plus parallels between Pynchon works and various articles. Although it hasn’t been updated since 2009, it still contains some useful information.
The Chumps of Choice — Once dedicated to a group reading of Against the Day, this blog still contains useful insights into Pynchon’s sprawling novel.
Miscellaneous Pynchonalia
Now Everybody! — The New York band Visit teamed up with Pynchon scholar Christian Hänggi to produce an album of Pynchon’s songs.
Marcin Szmandra’s Pynchon Swag — This Polish artists sells several delightful Pynchon-related T-shirts and coffee mugs on Redbubble.
Face to Face With Mortality, Intellect and Thomas Pynchon – A “triple self-portrait” by painter Aaron Board.
A King, a Queen and Two Knaves? – An interview with David Hadju, who conducted a FAX interview with Pynchon when writing Positively 4th Street.
Endorsement for Jim Knipfel’s new book The Buzzing – Pynchon does it again for Jim!
Lot49.com – The homepage of Thomas Claburn, the first to register Lot49.com, has many Pynchonesque and near-discordian treats.
Prüfstand 7 – A German film about the ghost of a rocket, inspired in part by Gravity’s Rainbow.
The Thomas Pynchon Connection – David Wild discusses Pynchon and jazz.
Thomas Pynchon: Man of Mystery – From Shane & Compton’s “Is This Tomorrow?”, this comic spoofs Pynchon’s penchant for anonymity.
Pynchon Paper Dolls – This fun-for-the-whole-family page contains cut-outs of Pynchon with various accessories, including his friends Yuri the Cosmonaut and a head of lettuce!
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Last Modified: 21 May 2022
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Last Modified: 21 May 2022
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Lawrence Bryan
Chatting with someone earlier today Pynchon came up and I recalled spending way too much. time on a Pynchon discussion site starting around 1994. My memory is that it was not monitored so anyone could chip in. They would periodically do group reads with discussions after each section. This was before Skype so everything was just post. and read.
I had a fair number of comments as “grip@netcom.com”. I can’t quite recall the name of the server that held the site but my memory is that it was out of “The Crying of…” Anyone have any idea. what I’m talking about?