Thomas Pynchon bibliography

This is a list of works by writer Thomas Pynchon.

Fiction

Books
Year Title Format Pages Publisher Unique identifiers Ref.
1963 V. Novel 492 Philadelphia: Lippincourt
  • LCCN 63-8634
  • OCLC 288349
 [1]
1966 The Crying of Lot 49 Novella[note 1] 183 Philadelphia: Lippincourt
[3]
1973 Gravity's Rainbow Novel 760 New York: Viking Press
  • ISBN 0-670-34832-5
  • OCLC 592261
 [4]
1984 Slow Learner Short story collection 193 Boston: Little, Brown
[5]
1990 Vineland Novel 385 Boston: Little, Brown
[6]
1997 Mason & Dixon Novel 773 New York: Henry Holt
[6]
2006 Against the Day Novel 1,085 New York: Penguin Books
[6]
2009 Inherent Vice Novel 369 New York: Penguin Books
[6]
2013 Bleeding Edge Novel 477 New York: Penguin Books
[6]

Short stories
Date Title Publication Collected in
Slow Learner		 Ref.
Mar
1959		 "The Small Rain" Cornell Writer (Vol. 6, No. 2) Yes [7]
Spring
1959		 "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" Epoch (Vol. 9, No. 4) No [7]
1960 "Low-lands" New World Writing 16 Yes [7]
Spring
1960		 "Entropy" Kenyon Review (Vol. 22, No. 2) Yes [8]
1961 "Under the Rose"[note 2] Noble Savage 3 Yes [10]
Dec 19–26
1959		 "The Secret Integration" The Saturday Evening Post Yes [10]

Excerpts

This section includes excerpts published prior to the excerpted work. It does not include excerpts reprinted after the publication of the excerpted work.

Date Title of excerpt Excerpted work Publication Ref.
1965 "In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job" V. Black Humor[note 3] [10]
Dec
1965		 "The World (This One), the Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa Maas), and the Testament of Pierce Inverarity" The Crying of Lot 49 Esquire [10]
Mar
1966		 "The Shrink Flips" The Crying of Lot 49 Cavalier [11]

Juvenilia
Date Title Publication Notes Ref.
1952–53 "Voice of the Hamster" Purple and Gold Vol. 9, No. 2 (Nov 13, 1952) Purple and Gold was a student publication at Oyster Bay High School. These stories were republished in an appendix of Chris Mead's 1989 bibliography of Pynchon's works; see Mead 1989, pp. 155–167. [12]
Purple and Gold Vol. 9, No. 3 (Dec 18, 1952) [13]
Purple and Gold Vol. 9, No. 4 (Jan 22, 1953) [14]
Purple and Gold Vol. 9, No. 5 (Feb 19, 1953) [15]
Mar 19,
1953		 "Ye Legend of Sir Stupid and the Purple Knight" Purple and Gold Vol. 9, No. 6 [16]
"The Boys" [17]
1958 Minstrel Island Unpublished Unpublished, unfinished manuscript co-written with Kirkpatrick Sale. Minstrel Island is a draft of a dystopian sci-fi musical. The manuscript is held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. [18]

Nonfiction
Date Title Genre Publication Publisher Notes Ref.
Dec
1960		 "Togetherness" Technical writing Aerospace Safety Vol. 16, No. 12 United States Air Force Written during Pynchon's employment at Boeing. Byline given as "Thomas H. Pynchon".[19] Pynchon's middle name is Ruggles.[20] [21]
1960–
1962		 [Various uncredited articles] Technical writing Bomarc Service News Boeing Bomarc Service News was a Boeing in-house publication related to development of the CIM-10 Bomarc, a surface-to-air missile. During his two years at Boeing, Pynchon was a staff writer for Bomarc Service News.[note 4] Nevertheless, precise attribution is impossible because its articles were uniformly uncredited. In the journal Pynchon Notes, Adrian Wisnicki described 24 "probable" and 10 "possible" articles attributable to Pynchon.[24] Katie Muth identified eight articles using a stylometry-based authorship algorithm that were "closely correlated with Pynchon's other nonfiction prose".[25] Muth later claimed that, from the "handful" of Bomarc articles reasonably attributable to Pynchon, two were "particularly" likely matches: "Torquing" (June 1960) and "The Mad Hatter and the Mercury Wetted Relays" (February 1962).[26] [27]
Aug
1965		 Letter to Jules Siegel Letter Cavalier Vol. 15, No. 146, p. 16 Fawcett Publications Several paragraphs from the letter were quoted in "The Dark Triumvirate", an article by Siegel (1935–2012) about the "black humor" of Pynchon, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Joseph Heller. Siegel indicated that the letter had been addressed to "a suicidal writer friend" but did not refer to its recipient by name.Moore 1984, p. 84 Others have surmised that it had been addressed to Siegel himself.[28] Pynchon recommended the article to a friend, the folk etymologist Peter Tamony, indicating that he did not object to Siegel's extensive quotation from a private letter.[29] In 1984, Steven Moore reprinted the quoted portion of the letter in the Fall 1984 issue of Pynchon Notes.[30] [30]
Dec
1965		 "A Gift of Books" Review Holiday Vol. 38, No. 6 Curtis Publishing Company Review of the 1958 Western novel Warlock by American author Oakley Hall (1920–2008).
Jun 12,
1966		 "A Journey into the Mind of Watts" Essay The New York Times Magazine The New York Times Essay on the Watts riots of August 11–16, 1965, and their aftermath in the neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles, California.
Jul 17,
1966		 "Pros and Cohns" Letter to the editor The New York Times Book Review The New York Times Response to an accusation of plagiarism directed at Pynchon by the French author Romain Gary, who asserted that Pynchon had stolen "Genghis Cohen"—the name of a character in The Crying of Lot 49—from the titular character of Gary's 1967 novel The Dance of Genghis Cohn (La danse de Gengis Cohn). Pynchon denied the allegation, said he had never heard of Gary or his works, and claimed that their independent invention of a "trivial" pun on the name Genghis Khan was purely coincidental.[31] [32]
1976 Letter to Richard Wilbur Letter Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 2nd series, Vol. 26, pp. 43–46: "Presentation to Thomas Pynchon of the Howells Medal for Fiction of the Academy by William Styron" American Academy of Arts and Letters The letter declined the William Dean Howells Medal for Fiction, which Pynchon had been awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letterss for Gravity's Rainbow. At the time, Wilbur was president of the Academy.[33] [34]
Apr 28,
1977		 Letter to John Calvin Batchelor Letter to the editor The SoHo Weekly News Vol. 4, No. 30 (quoted in "The Ghost of Richard Fariña" by Batchelor) Michael Goldstein In an article published by the SoHo Weekly News on April 24, 1976, Batchelor alleged that there was no such person as Thomas Pynchon. Instead, Batchelor posited, the name was merely a pseudonym of J. D. Salinger, who had withdrawn from public life and stopped publishing fiction just before Pynchon's career began.[35] In a letter written on MGM stationery, Pynchon replied: "Not bad. Keep trying."[36] Batchelor quoted the letter in a followup piece, in which he conceded Pynchon's existence, maintained that Salinger had written most of Pynchon's works, and suggested that Donald Barthelme or even Pynchon himself had contributed to the Pynchon oeuvre.[37] Later, Batchelor accepted Pynchon's sole authorship of his books.[38] [39]
1983 "Introduction" to Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me Foreword Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (3rd ed.) Penguin Books Introduction to the 1966 novel by American author Richard Fariña (1937–1966), who had been Pynchon's friend and schoolmate at Cornell. [40]
Oct 28,
1984		 "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?" Essay The New York Times Book Review The New York Times Essay on neo-Luddism. [40]
1988 Letter to Thomas F. Hirsch Letter The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon by David Seed Macmillan Press Hirsch, a graduate student, wrote to Pynchon about material in chapter 9 of V. related to historical South West Africa.[41] Pynchon replied to Hirsch in a letter dated January 8, 1969, which was published in 1988 as an appendix to The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon.[42] [43]
Apr 10,
1988		 "The Heart's Eternal Vow" Review The New York Times Book Review The New York Times Review of the 1988 English-language translation of the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014). [40]
1992 "Introduction" to The Teachings of Don B. Foreword The Teachings of Don B. (1st ed.) Turtle Bay Introduction to a collection of writings by American author Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) edited by Kim Herzinger. [44]
Jun 6,
1993		 "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee" Essay The New York Times Book Review The New York Times Essay on sloth in America. First entry in a summer-long series about the seven deadly sins by various writers. [44]
Apr
1994		 Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones Liner notes Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones (CD compilation album) Catalyst (subsidiary of BMG) Essay introducing the music of American bandleader Spike Jones (1911–1965), known for his satirical swing compositions and complex novelty arrangements. [45]
Mar
1996
[note 5]		 Nobody's Cool Liner notes Nobody's Cool (studio album) by Lotion SpinART Records Essay introducing the album by the American alternative rock band Lotion. [44]
Jun
1996		 "Lunch with Lotion" Interview Esquire Vol. 125, No. 6 Hearst Communications Pynchon interviews the members of American alternative rock band Lotion. [48]
1997 "Introduction" to Stone Junction Foreword Stone Junction: An Alchemical Potboiler (1st. pbk. ed.) Grove Press Introduction to the first paperback edition of the 1990 novel by American author Jim Dodge (1945–). Pynchon had written a blurb for the first edition dust jacket.
Jan
1999		 "Hallowe'en Over Already?" Essay Cathedral School Newsletter Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (New York) Essay on
2003 "Introduction" to Nineteen Eighty-Four Foreword Nineteen Eighty-Four (Centennial Edition) Plume Introduction to a new edition of the 1949 novel by English author George Orwell (1903–1950) marking the centenary of Orwell's birth. The edition also includes a 1961 afterword by German-American writer Erich Fromm (1900–1980). [49]
Nov 16,
2006		 "The Evolution of The Daily Show" Essay The Daily Show: Ten Fu@#ing Years (The Concert) Irving Plaza (New York) Essay for the program of The Daily Show's Ten-Year Anniversary Concert at Irving Plaza on November 16, 2006.

Letters
  • (1989) "Words for Salman Rushdie" New York Times Book Review 12 March 1989.[50]
  • (1990) "Of a Fond Ghoul" selected letters from the files of Corlies Smith
  • (2006) Letter included in Nigel Reynold's "The borrower: 'why McEwan is no plagiarist'" Daily Telegraph 6 December 2006

Misattributed works

Pynchon's name appeared below the liner notes for Barefoot in the Head, a 1990 studio album by noise musicians Jim Sauter, Don Dietrich, and Thurston Moore. The misattribution was a prank.[51]

  • (2001) "Most News is Propaganda. Bin Laden May Not Exist." Playboy Japan December 2001

Notes
  1. In the introduction to Slow Learner, Pynchon set the title as "The Crying of Lot 49"—within double quotation marks, rather than italics—and described it as a "story" that had been "marketed as a 'novel'".[2]
  2. A modified adaptation of "Under the Rose" became the third chapter of V. Critics have variously treated "Under the Rose" as a "pre- or meta-text" to V., or as a distinct work with an intertextual relationship to the novel.[9]
  3. Black Humor was an anthology edited by Bruce Jay Friedman and published by Bantam.[10]
  4. Shortly after Pynchon won the for V., Kenneth Calkins—then-editor of the internal newsletter Boeing News—noted Pynchon had written for Bomarc Service News.[22] E. A. Hixson, a former editor of Bomarc Service News, later confirmed that Pynchon had been on the publication's staff during his editorship.[23]
  5. According to some sources, Nobody's Cool was released in 1995.[46] While the copyright registration for the album was dated 1995, it was not actually released until March 1996.[47]

References

Citations
  1. Mead 1989, p. 5.
  2. Pynchon 1984, p. 22.
  3. Mead 1989, p. 9.
  4. Mead 1989, p. 13.
  5. Mead 1989, p. 15.
  6. Freer 2019, p. vii.
  7. Mead 1989, p. 19.
  8. Mead 1989, p. 21.
  9. Amian 2008, pp. 82–83.
  10. Mead 1989, p. 23.
  11. Mead 1989, p. 25.
  12. Mead 1989, pp. 19, 157–158.
  13. Mead 1989, pp. 19, 158–160.
  14. Mead 1989, pp. 19, 160–161.
  15. Mead 1989, pp. 19, 163.
  16. Mead 1989, pp. 19, 163–166.
  17. Mead 1989, pp. 19, 166–167.
  18. Harle 2019, pp. 16–18.
  19. Wisnicki 2000–2001, p. 10.
  20. Duyfhuizen & Krafft 1996, p. 178.
  21. Mead 1989, p. 19; Wisnicki 2000–2001, pp. 10–12.
  22. Muth 2019, pp. 1–2.
  23. Wisnicki 2000–2001, p. 14.
  24. Wisnicki 2000–2001, pp. 25–29.
  25. Muth 2019a, pp. 480, 490 (fn. 29), 492–493.
  26. Muth 2019b, p. 29 (fn. 25).
  27. Wisnicki 2000–2001, pp. 14, 25–29.
  28. Weisenburger 1990, p. 693 (fn. 3).
  29. Rolls 2019, pp. 16, 21 (fn. 7).
  30. Moore 1984, pp. 84–85; Mead 1989, p. 23.
  31. Balint 2018, p. 24.
  32. Mead 1989, p. 25; Balint 2018, p. 24.
  33. Rolls 2019, p. 15.
  34. Mead 1989, p. 25; Rolls 2019, pp. 15, 21 (fn. 2).
  35. Alexander 1999, p. 254.
  36. Tanner 1982, p. 18; Alexander 1999, pp. 254–255.
  37. Alexander 1999, p. 255.
  38. Alexander 1999, pp. 255–256.
  39. Mead 1989, pp. 25, 27.
  40. Mead 1989, p. 27.
  41. Seed 1988, p. 240.
  42. Seed 1988, pp. 240–243.
  43. Seed 1988, pp. 240–243; Mead 1989, p. 27
  44. Dalsgaard 2019, p. 362.
  45. Dryden n.d.; Dalsgaard 2019, p. 362.
  46. See, e.g., Strong 1999, p. 375; Duyfhuizen & Krafft 1996, p. 177.
  47. Pynchon 1996, p. 86 ("releasing ... their second CD, Nobody's Cool, in March '96"); Dalsgaard 2019, p. 362 (noting the 1995 copyright but 1996 release).
  48. Duyfhuizen & Krafft 1996, p. 178, 200; Pynchon 1996, pp. 84–88, 90.
  49. Deery 2005, p. 122.
  50. Krafft 2019, p. 10.
  51. Masters 2013.

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