In 2006, I began a review of Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (for a publication that shall remain both nameless and blameless), but I didn’t manage to finish the book until about three months after it came out, at which point the review was no longer timely. When Pynchon published Inherent Vice I thought I’d post the review of AtD here, but of course the site wasn’t ready in time. Now, however, things are up and running, and, even though the piece is now doubly tardy, I’m posting it anyway, in the hope that the piece is of interest to Pynchon’s readers, or mine.
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