Thomas Pynchon, in pastel neon
Thomas Pynchon, as a sailor long ago
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It only just showed up here so no qualitative judgments quite yet, but it's worth taking some time to pause and ogle the cover of Thomas Pynchon's forthcoming novel Inherent Vice. It's simultaneously as enticing and as off-putting as a book-cover could be, like a fever-dream mash-up of an air-brushed Fort Lauderdale T-shirt and Jimmy Buffett album art (with a little bit of Ghostbusters, by way of the car).
The book's release date is August 4. It's been described as a "psychedelic mystery." It's way shorter than Against The Day (a spare-for-Pynchon 369 pages). And the cover looks like this...
