Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 8:20 PM UTC
Paul Thomas Anderson on upcoming Pynchon adaptation: Screenplay is “more secretarial”
The director says his next film will be a close adaptation of "Inherent Vice"
The director says his next film will be a close adaptation of "Inherent Vice"
The famed author is back with a tale of drugs, hippies and paranoia -- and you don't need a decoder ring to read it
Slogging through the science and history, sex and paranoia that crowd Thomas Pynchon's cartoonish new novel, it's obvious his disciples now write better Big Idea novels than he does.
Start by sending him your novel -- it can't hurt.
Mimi Fari
Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software.
"The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black intellectual novel
David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
A map to the online homes of the literary stars.
A review of Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"