Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Of International Espionage And White-Cheddar Crime

Lisa Borst at The Baffler: In a 1990 review of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, John Leonard described the book as “unbuttoned, as though the author-god had gone to a ballgame. ” Vineland is maybe my personal favorite Pynchon, although choosing one feels like trying to pick the best lava lamp in a chandeli.