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‘Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely’: Serious Openings and Subversive Epigraphs in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
5 June 2024
Thomas Pynchon, from S-Gerät to Y-Gerät
19 August 2021
A hypothesis: kernel function density estimation and graphing may predict literary critical attention
30 January 2020
Did Thomas Pynchon write Cow Country? Stylistic affinities and divergences
11 June 2017
Undergraduates, digital humanities, and visualization: looking back on my early visualizations of Gravity's Rainbow
13 February 2016
New review published of Joanna Freer, Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture
3 November 2015
'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
4 July 2015
Visualizing Gravity's Rainbow
7 June 2015
Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel: Late Pynchon's Academics
7 June 2015
Two free copies of "Pynchon and Philosophy" to win and/or a 25% discount
3 May 2014
First Impressions From Paul Thomas Anderson’s film of ‘Inherent Vice‘
15 April 2014
Book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
10 April 2014
Publication: Pynchon and Wittgenstein: Ethics, Relativism and Philosophical Methodology
20 February 2014
My forthcoming book: Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (Palgrave, 2014)
22 October 2013
Publication: "Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld"
5 September 2013
On International Pynchon Week
11 August 2013
Pynchon in Public Day 2013
21 April 2013
More on new Thomas Pynchon novel, Bleeding Edge
17 April 2013
Historical Sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society now available for download (Green Open Access)
15 April 2013
Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of 'Metamodernism': Post-millennial Post-postmodernism?'
29 January 2013
New Pynchon Novel! Fall 2013: "Bleeding Edge"
4 January 2013
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
21 December 2012
Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
11 December 2012
New Orbit review: American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, by Theophilus Savvas
21 October 2012
Orbit 1.2 is now "open" and our "rolling format" is live
19 October 2012
Publication: 'Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History (review)', Textual Practice, 26, 5
16 October 2012
Conference paper: 'Opening children's eyes': Overloaded Forms and the Didactic Function (Westminster University)
18 September 2012
Conference Panel: Pynchon Now (Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar)
6 September 2012
"Karl Marx, that sly old racist"
4 September 2012
Publication: 'Whose line is it anyway?: enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon', Textual Practice, 26, 5
2 September 2012
Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and 21st-Century Utopianism (presentation)
19 July 2012
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is now digitally preserved by CLOCKSS
13 July 2012
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon is live
9 July 2012
International Pynchon Week 2013 Conference: Website and CFP
25 June 2012
Is this a picture of Thomas Pynchon aged 51?
8 June 2012
An update on Orbit 1.1
2 May 2012
Pynchon in Public Day 2012: our meetup details
30 April 2012
New York Times writes about my Ph.D. thesis work!
5 April 2012
Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, Materialism and Negative Dialectics, 28-29 May, 2012, Northumbria University
14 March 2012
My review of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon at Berfrois
24 February 2012
Conference Paper: Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and Twenty-First-Century Utopianism, 16-18 July, 2012, University of Lincoln
10 February 2012
It's not P.T. Anderson, but someone has started an Inherent Vice adaptation
9 January 2012
Pynchon Character Etymology: Étienne Cherdlu
9 January 2012
The only known inscribed Pynchon book with a presentation letter
3 January 2012
A minor correction to Anne Mangel's "Maxwell's Demon, Entropy, Information: The Crying of Lot 49"
13 December 2011
Publication: 'Historical Sources for Pynchon’s Peter Pinguid Society', Pynchon Notes, 56-57 (Spring-Fall 2009 (2011)), pp. 242-245
12 December 2011
Pynchon's Friends in Gravity's Rainbow
24 October 2011
Conference Paper: 'It sure's hell looked like war': Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld', 2010-06-09, University of Lublin
3 August 2011
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon
11 July 2011
A Thomas Pynchon tattoo recruit
6 July 2011
The 8th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: Day 2
25 June 2011
Conference paper: Geo-specificity of Enlightenment in Mason & Dixon, 2011-06-24, University of Glasgow
16 June 2011
More Pynchonalia
13 June 2011
A Brief Intro Pynchon Bibliography (Biographical and Gravity's Rainbow)
7 June 2011
Photograph and Interview in the Guardian
16 May 2011
On Pynchon and Privacy
6 May 2011
Pynchon in Public Day 2011
14 April 2011
Delay to Report on First UKPN Meeting
11 April 2011
Speaking plainly
8 April 2011
Conference paper: “The Driver's Whip is an evil thing”: Enlightenment as Mass Enslavement in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, 2011-06-17, University of Portsmouth
5 April 2011
My recent work at Berfrois
2 April 2011
Conference Paper: "The F Word", 2011-04-01, University of Durham
17 March 2011
UK Pynchon Network: Site Up and Programme Announced
11 March 2011
What is Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow about?
7 March 2011
CFP: First Conference of the UK Academic Pynchon Network
8 February 2011
Pynchon reference in the Economist
31 January 2011
A Statistical History of UK Pynchon Doctorates
28 January 2011
Where to start with Thomas Pynchon?
9 October 2010
My navy days with Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
22 June 2010
International Pynchon Week 2010: Day 3
11 June 2010
International Pynchon Week: Day 2
11 June 2010
International Pynchon Week: Day 1
9 June 2010
International Pynchon Week 2010 Abstracts
19 March 2010
Thomas Pynchon critical bibliography Zotero group
13 March 2010