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Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Adrian McKinty Reads Pynchon’s Hardboiled Trilogy

By Adrian McKinty | December 10, 2025

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How to get into Thomas Pynchon, on the occasion of his birthday

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By Adrian McKinty | November 21, 2017

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