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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ɒ n / PIN-chon, [1] [2] commonly / ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ən / PIN-chən; [3] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes , including history , music , science , and ...
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. 1959 Cornell University: Richard Posner: 1959 Yale University: Richard Lindzen: 1960 Harvard University: Robert E. Rubin: 1960 Harvard University: David H. Souter: 1960 Harvard University: Daniel Gillespie: 1960 Rice University: Lester Thurow: 1960 Williams College: Fay Vincent: 1960 Williams College: Pat Schroeder ...
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ɒ n / PIN-chon, commonly / ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ən / PIN-chən; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics.
Lodge 49 is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jim Gavin. [6] It aired on the cable television network AMC in the United States from August 6, 2018, to October 14, 2019, spanning two seasons and 20 episodes.
Pynchon is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), American novelist; George M. Pynchon (1862–1940), American yacht racer; William Pynchon (1590–1662), English colonial settler and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published on November 21, 2006. [1] The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, Africa and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all ...
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon.It was published on April 27, 1966, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. [1] The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian woman who begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies.
The name comes from "yoyo", a repetitive motion, and "dyne", a unit of force. [2] According to Gyu Han Kang, it "symbolizes the destructive force of sameness and artificially structured order". [2] Joseph W. Slade suggests that Yoyodyne was based on Pynchon's time working for Boeing. [3] [1]