Maya Rudolph in Paul Thomas Anderson films Inherent Vice (2014)//Licorice Pizza (2021) It was great, it was easy, if you can get a couple of hours where you get to tell her what to do and she does it, I would definitely recommend it. – Paul Thomas Anderson on working with wife Maya Rudolph
A few sentences on every Thomas Pynchon novel to date
A few sentences on every Thomas Pynchon novel to date
Today, 8 May 2022, is Thomas Ruggles Pynchon’s 85th birthday. Some of us nerds celebrate the work of one of the world’s greatest living authors with something called Pynchon in Public Day. In the past I’ve rounded up links to Pynchon stuff on Biblioklept and elsewhere. To celebrate, here are short riffs on Pynchon’s eight novels: V. (1963) I reread Pynchon’s first novel for the first time last…
When P.I. Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin… well, easy for her to say.
It’s the tail end of the ‘60s, paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is one of those words going around, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s way too overused—except this one usually leads to trouble.
With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists…
Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp — all Thomas Pynchon.
![Inherent Vice[ Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 ]* * * *](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1e452d96c90d6df0209d4b1ecfe91ded/f77cf75eff16ae98-6e/s1280x1920/1e9d028d3d43f2ed3e134b5138b41e5aef72fc22.png "Inherent Vice[ Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 ]* * * *")
![Inherent Vice[ Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 ]* * * *](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0e4b6dc76d7f37fecbb9c4612a8253fc/f77cf75eff16ae98-a7/s1280x1920/f245fe54477e500e21871e5e2d0e908d5f050e9b.png "Inherent Vice[ Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 ]* * * *")
![Inherent Vice[ Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 ]* * * *](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7a6cfa8e4089ad83fd70a9e32e63a61a/f77cf75eff16ae98-35/s1280x1920/240bc793ec003c6069b766e145618fdc9f10d76d.png "Inherent Vice[ Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 ]* * * *")
