Thomas Pynchon Meets His Match: The Internet

Crying of Lot 4.9

The novelist of our paranoid age has finally met his match in his new novel about the Internet, 9/11 and New York. By Alexander Nazaryan.

Published Sep. 11 2013 3:05PM EDT

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Thomas Pynchon may have finally met his match. I don’t mean that another novelist has superseded him—the wily old postmodernist remains as fine a writer as we have.

Alexander Nazaryan

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Thomas Pynchon Meets His Match: The Internet

The novelist of our paranoid age has finally met his match in his new novel about the Internet, 9/11 and New York. By Alexander Nazaryan.

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Alexander Nazaryan