/lit/ - Literature

>>20602496
>When was the last photo of him that has been released?

The last public photo of him was from when he was in the Navy... around when he was 19 years old. It's on the back cover of one of the more recent books on him.

>>16773831

guys... is he doin okay? I'm worried.

>>14343205
Supposedly, the new photo of Pynch was taken because he was voting

Many Pynchon fans probably don't know about his non-fiction essays. There are a couple good ones.

Here's a site with his lesser-known, shorter writings:

https://thomaspynchon.com/pynchonalia/

Best two:

1) The Deadly Sins/Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee

2) Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?

Excerpt from 1):

>Writers of course are considered the mavens of Sloth. They are approached all the time on the subject, not only for free advice, but also to speak at Sloth Symposia, head up Sloth Task Forces, testify as expert witnesses at Sloth Hearings. The stereotype arises in part from our conspicuous presence in jobs where pay is by the word, and deadlines are tight and final -- we are presumed to know from piecework and the convertibility of time and money. In addition, there is all the glamorous folklore surrounding writer's block, an affliction known sometimes to resolve itself dramatically and without warning, much like constipation, and (hence?) finding wide sympathy among readers.

>Writer's block, however, is a trip to the theme park of your choice alongside the mortal sin that produces it. Like each of the other six, Sloth was supposed to be the progenitor of a whole family of lesser, or venial, sins, among them Idleness, Drowsiness, Restlessness of the Body, Instability and Loquacity. "Acedia" in Latin means sorrow, deliberately self-directed, turned away from God, a loss of spiritual determination that then feeds back on in to the process, soon enough producing what are currently known as guilt and depression, eventually pushing us to where we will do anything, in the way of venial sin and bad judgment, to avoid the discomfort.

To be honest, he's probably too old to have another book in him, and consider the following:
>In 1998, over 120 letters that Pynchon had written to his longtime agent, Candida Donadio, were donated by the family of a private collector, Carter Burden, to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. The letters ranged from 1963 to 1982, thus covering some of the author's most creative and prolific years. Although the Morgan Library originally intended to allow scholars to view the letters, at Pynchon's request the Burden family and Morgan Library agreed to seal these letters until after Pynchon's death.

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>>13268505
Numero Zero by Eco

>Pynchon is born the day after Hemingways death
This old nigga gotta die to make way for whats next

>>13158700
Are you close with Grandpa Pynchon?

>>13144512
Yes Grandpa Pynch is

>>13134784
I want one but I really want this as a poster

>>13111873
Unrelated, but I want this poster for my home library

>>13082163

>>13077791
likely

>>12862127

threadly reminder

>>12790146

>>12479192

>>12409069
Here’s a better version. Saved it from the first thread.

>>12393951
Hate the norwegian paparrazi

Full size.
Well, the jig's up Pinecone, time to start uploading selfies to /lit/.