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  • -- Pynchon also manages to produce a novel that is recognizably Pynchonian.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • -- Pynchon also manages to produce a novel that is recognizably Pynchonian.

    What's Going On? 2010

  • -- Pynchon also manages to produce a novel that is recognizably Pynchonian.

    Comedy in Literature 2010

  • -- Pynchon also manages to produce a novel that is recognizably Pynchonian.

    February 2010 2010

  • The novel "Lookout Cartridge" 1974, often cited as Mr. McElroy's finest achievement, is full of late 1960s radical lore and Pynchonian paranoia.

    A Guidebook Through An Impossible Oeuvre Mark Kamine 2011

  • James Wood is perfectly entitled to elevate Naipaulian realism and denigrate Pynchonian anti-realism (if that's what he wants to call them -- I don't think either term does either writer much justice).

    Realism in Fiction 2008

  • "Ghastly prose, flat cardboard-cut-out characters and would-be Pynchonian paranoid theories of history that go exactly nowhere," one reader wrote.

    In Need of Some Amazon Group Therapy 2009

  • It seems pretty clear that he was mashing together two foreign policy extremes, and the invocation of Wilson was rhetorical, to avoid using the term "realistic idealism," which is almost as hilariously Pynchonian as Catatonic Expressionism.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Sadly, they didn't, but he got The Crying of Lot 49 so the day wasn't wasted, and in an access of Pynchonian madness no doubt, Andy offered to buy me a book.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • It seems pretty clear that he was mashing together two foreign policy extremes, and the invocation of Wilson was rhetorical, to avoid using the term "realistic idealism," which is almost as hilariously Pynchonian as Catatonic Expressionism.

    Hullabaloo 2006

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