I work for Penguin Books USA in NYC and a few weeks ago, a friend of mine who works in proofreading brought up that she had received the new Thomas Pynchon novel revised draft but couldn't talk about it. A few weeks down the line, because his name keeps coming up, some other coworkers stumbled across a pasta that is supposedly from these forums (I'll talk about that a little later, too). While we're out having drinks last Friday, the pasta comes up in a conversation with the proofreader, and we read it aloud (I wasn't the one responsible for finding it, and I don't feel like hunting it down) but it was about snakes popping out of cans, etc. The proofreader freaked out, because apparently there is a direct reference to this in the novel, which she reconfirmed with me yesterday when she had a second opportunity to look at it on Monday.
Also, apparently he's at the very least looked at these forums, as there's also a name drop in the new book (of the website, don't know if it references the literature boards in particular).
Anyways, congrats on getting a mention (I guess?) And no, I've never met, seen (that I know of, but I work in NYC), interacted with, talked on the phone with Pynchon.
Tell those fuckers to stop rejecting my job applications
Christopher Edwards
prove that you're in nyc right now
Brody Campbell
Please don't bully the autists.
Dominic Jenkins
...
Matthew Anderson
Please don't LARP here.
Logan Foster
why bother typing all this?
Robert Johnson
I don't want to post from work computers or I'd stick around more. I'll post a dated picture when I get home. Also it took me probably 2 minutes, most of which I was half doing other things, to write that post haha
Lincoln Watson
>haha
Nice try dumbass.
Aaron Davis
This is the best I can do rn (view from my office)
Adrian Parker
>this photo Why did you use this "cameo" its not even him
Angel Brown
Yes it is but he's in extensive amounts of makeup.
William Howard
Acolytes, unworthy as I am to say as much. Here's a hint as to what I've named it:
The Guardian's Bastille Day, or The Banana King
Bentley Perez
gake and fay
Henry Bennett
you didn't do very well
Jaxson Torres
OP here, I googled "pynchon pics" or something. I also don't know if that's him, just thought it was fun. This is fake. I'm pretty sure even the dept reading the book doesn't have a definite title
Also, apparently the pasta appears not necessarily word-for-word, but close. I know the snake was in it, I can't remember the pasta, but there was a ton of material directly from it. It's apparently like a paragraph (although, I haven't heard the paragraph directly either).
Sorry for being vague, I have no contact with this book and limited contact with people who have read the RD
Luis Long
Hello, Vagrants.
What's the hype? Who's the City Cat with the Elixer? Why can't Horace escape his wife's ghost? And what's with all the Immortality Business? Cui Bono?
More and more along the way.
Cooper Morales
Pynchons my fav writer for sure
Noah Johnson
Fuck off Bugs.
Levi Sullivan
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
Brandon Martin
If i was Pynchon:
>Write last book >"The Autobiography of Thomas Pynchon" >1,500 pages of absolute falsehoods >Rest easy till the sun sets
Oliver Morales
It's not him. The only real post-1960s photo of him is the blurry one where he's walking down the street with his kid with a black winter jacket + hood on. The photographer got a serious talkin'-to for it.
Google "pynchon kid"
Gabriel Russell
Can you get me an internship?
Asher Wood
And there is that cnn video. he has a red cap.
Mason Perez
norm already did this
Lucas Price
Bullshit he's a rando extra and people kept trying to hunt him down and his family freaked the fuck out >OP here, I googled "pynchon pics" or something. I also don't know if that's him, just thought it was fun. Larp better
David Sullivan
you fuckin with me, OP? if there really is a book, as you say, how long is it? is it an epic or just... another bleeding edge?
Gabriel Garcia
Is this actually you, Tom?
Jaxon Lee
I know Tom, but you and Norm inhabit different spheres.
William Wilson
OP here, I don't know a single detail about this book save that this appears in some form in it, enough to where the proofreader freaked out, and that "Veeky Forums" is mentioned (I don't know the context but if I had to gauge from a gut feeling it's negligible, like a passing reference.) The reference to the pasta is pretty overt.
Any other details I don't know. Usually with an author that has this big of a following and a name we are delivered the draft in-hand by a private courier, and no one who is reading it is talking about it. So I couldn't even tell you how many pages arrived, or how long those will be in book form, etc. I had some gossip confirmed a few weeks ago that it had arrived (we were anticipating it) but any other details the proofreaders and readers keep totally quiet.
Joseph Diaz
Write your dream plot summary for the next Pynchon tome
David Reyes
OP,
This is a pretty dope marketing scheme. Stoking the fire in pretty much the only forum that actively discusses literature.
You deserve a raise.
Levi Morris
I thought we all already knew he lurked? In one thread about him months ago he said something along the lines of "you guys make me laugh" and said something about how his new book would be coming out next year.
Connor Nelson
Also if you fucks actually read Bleeding Edge, he very clearly referenced Veeky Forums, though indirectly.
John Green
subterranean mole people who finally develop a way to blot out the sun, and rise from the depths to conquer the earth. i would also like to see some mole people technology fleshed out, warfare and weaponry through their perspective, music, culture, porn, sweet sweet mole porn.
Juan Campbell
I missed the supposed Pynchon shitposts and I deeply regret it.
Hudson Stewart
he could also tie it into that mining thread we had a month or so ago, the guy who asked if there was an epic ever based on the life of those in mining towns. hell, might have been him testing the waters. the mining towns could be full of mole spies, like reptilians, miners could gain sympathy from the moles as well. hey, speaking of reptilians, they could finally reveal themselves and try to wrest the world from the greedy paws of the moles.
Charles Morris
is this the guy who's supposed to be like a watered-down, reddit-humor, gaddis?
Ryder Ortiz
i remember seeing someone posting in a thread about Pynchon back in the summer ,much the same scenario only that the book was composed of two volumes and it had "large parts of it written in french " .
Benjamin Davis
>author obsessed with internet culture >sees a pattern of where memes originate >goes on Veeky Forums >sees there is a literature board >sees that it constantly shit posts about him >finds it funny
that's not that far-fetched, but he didnt quote a pasta in a book, unless he created the pasta and seeded it here to meme himself
US government using meme magic to fight terror attacks and influence elections, kind of like The Men Who Stare at Goats a little.
Mason James
I hope it's a fucking Tome if this is true.
Carson Cox
yo! quality of that vid sucks cock
Elijah Perry
>clearly but indirectly wat
Wyatt Powell
old people on the internet makes me sick
Logan Gutierrez
Imagine how disappointing it would be if his last book is only like 300 pages
Landon Nguyen
Veeky Forums didn't exist in 2001, the time when BE takes place. Why would he put an anachronous reference in?
Camden Price
If it's not one he's been working on since the 60s that's over 1200 pages, pic related
Jeremiah Murphy
Exactly, Pynchon would never, ever do such a thing.
Colton Bell
The Japanese Insurance Adjuster: A Civil War Tale Full of Goofs Gags Jokes and Rambuctious Behavior
Grayson Diaz
I genuinely hope that Pynchon's last work is as massive and impenetrable as Finnegans Wake. I never want to get tired of hearing him go yukyukyuk and smashing a gong.
Kayden Edwards
Thomas Pynchon, do you walk among us? If you're out there, please give us a sign!
Dominic Evans
Is Bleeding Edge any good?
Adam Thomas
If Ruggles were to somehow give us a sign that he's here among us, reading our posts, perhaps even posting himself, I would actually cry. I know a lot of you meme about him, so who knows what you really think, but I truly love the Pynch.
Thomas Phillips
If I were him and I were here, one post like this would ensure I never revealed anything about who I really was.
Samuel Roberts
I knew it would work. Hi Tom.
Gavin King
You're not alone, user.
Gavin Brown
Pynchon dies next year
Brayden Perez
Pynchon is already dead you stupid schwarzenigger
Joshua Ortiz
don't taint my post with this thirdhand meme. cap this: Pynchon will die in the autumn of 2018
Caleb Clark
sir you should have the dignity at least to admit to yourself that when he is going to die (if he is not dead already and i believe that he is) his death will never be confirmed and as a result we are to asume that it wont matter if he dies in autumn of 2018 or summer 2022 or for that matter yesterday.
Dylan Sanders
Hello my friends. Somewhere in this thread there is accuracy, though not precision, if you can dig.
Blake Adams
hey, pynch. if you're here, would you mind giving me some advice? i've fallen out of love with literature that isn't gigantic, maximalistic, should i be wasting my time with the russians anymore? i've been yearning for modernity, a gargantuan feat to overcome, all this small stuff seems just so.. dull. predictable and dull. so peaceful. i want to be entombed, buried, up to my head drowning in a book i'll never truly understand. i don't care about meaning or absolute truth or any of it, i want to be blown away by things i don't know and won't. what should i do, pynch? what the hell am i doing? i'm reading jovial soviets while i could be reading beckett and gaddis, gass, and you. why am i doing this to myself? what am i doing?
Zachary Collins
i dont get you tho
Bentley Sanchez
God, are you here? Faith is quite tiresome.
Cooper Carter
Medieval surfers smoking dank dark ages dope.
Carson Howard
Keep reading those tomes, friend.
Samuel Gray
Another hint, you say?
Loon returns.
Joshua Wright
A voyage through time and space featuring an immortal, intelligent dog as the protagonist
Hunter Rivera
obvious trolling aside is it possible for pynchon ,at his age , to write another book?
Ian Brown
If he's been working on it since like the early 90s and is just putting the finishing touches on it, yes.
Nathan Williams
How is it working for a publisher? You like the job?
Lincoln Reyes
Is it Pandemonium of the Sun?
Ian Parker
only thing that matters is whether it's good. doesn't need to be a doorstopper as long as it's not "pynchon-lite" like BE and IV
Mason Jackson
it's good in general but not so much compared to his other works. if you like pynchon it's worth reading
Liam Wood
Yukyukyukyuk
Michael Roberts
Pynchon trough the misteries of life has become something as beautiful and as important/relevant as a new literary current. Just us here, talking about him, pretending to be him, believing he IS here and that he IS writing those posts... It is truly something magical.