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“A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon

Orbit, 2016
The June 1888 issue of the Phonographic World magazine presented John Pynchon, an ancestor of Thomas, as “The First American Shorthand Reporter”. While most biographical criticism to date of Thomas Pynchon has focused on the cameo appearance of a thinly ...
Mark Sussman, Martin Paul Eve
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Thomas Pynchon and the Vacuum Salesman in Guadalajara

Orbit, 2013
The article documents the contents of Thomas Pynchon's essay "Hallowe'en? Over Already?," positing that the approach Pynchon takes to discussing the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, a tour of which Pynchon describes provides an approach for writing a ...
Albert Rolls
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Microplastics in the Environment: Much Ado about Nothing? A Debate

Global Challenges, Volume 4, Issue 6, June 2020., 2020
Borne out of an argument over the environmental risks of microplastics on Twitter, the authors exchange their views on risk conceptions and communication in the attention economy, risk assessment and scientific uncertainty, hypothesis testing, prioritizing environmental issues, the costs of (in)action, the precautionary principle in decision‐making and,
Thomas Backhaus, Martin Wagner
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Pynchon´s parable: The american dream in The crying of Lot 49

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015
Aunque el estilo innovador de Thomas Pynchon La subasta del lote 49 es a la vez el deleite y la desesperación de sus lectores, su impacto se deriva del contenido mitopoética y contexto histórico en esta novela corta, Pynchon se une a las filas de los ...
Kari Meyers Skredsvig
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Review of Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon

Orbit, 2013
Review of Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon (2013)
Albert Rolls
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Review of James Gourley, Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo (2013)

Orbit, 2013
Review of James Gourley, Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013)
Martin Paul Eve
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Stefano Ercolino, Il romanzo massimalista. Da L’Arcobaleno della gravità di Thomas Pynchon a 2666 di Roberto Bolaño

Between, 2017
Review of the book Il romanzo massimalista. Da L’Arcobaleno della gravità di Thomas Pynchon a 2666 di Roberto Bolaño by Stefano Ercolino.
Lorenzo Mari
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Os porquês de Wanda Tinasky não ser Thomas Pynchon: um estudo de caso (II)

Texto Digital, 2023
Neste trabalho voltamos a enfrentar o problema sobre a autoria das cartas da Wanda Tinasky. Estas que foram dadas como de autoria do ficcionista estadunidense Thomas R.
Saulo Brandão
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Review of Evans Lansing Smith, Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld, Modern American Literature: New Approaches vol. 62 (New York: Peter Lang, 2012)

Orbit, 2015
Book review of Evans Lansing Smith, Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld, Modern American Literature: New Approaches vol. 62 (New York: Peter Lang, 2012)
Kathryn Hume
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Review of "How had it ever happened here?": A Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and its Role in the Pynchon Canon, by Yvonne Klose (2012)

Orbit, 2012
Review of "How had it ever happened here?": A Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and its Role in the Pynchon Canon, by Yvonne Klose (2012)
Zac Rowlinson
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