Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Surveying Pynchon’s California | Scott McClintock and John Miller
Situated Fictions: Reading the California Novels against Thomas Pynchon’s Narrative World | Margaret Lynd
Life on the Beach: The Natural Elements in Thomas Pynchon’s California Trilogy | Hanjo Berressem
Pynchon’s Coast: Inherent Vice and the Twilight of the Spatially Specific | Bill Millard
The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State of California in Pynchon’s Fiction | Scott McClintock
Playgrounds of Detection: The Californian Private Eye in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice | Scott Macleod
Profane Illuminations: Postmodernism, Realism, and the Holytail Marijuana Crop in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland | Henry Veggian
Postmodern Sacrality and Inherent Vice | Christopher K. Coffman
Reading, Resistance, and the California Turn in Pynchon’s Cornucopian Fiction | John Miller
Maybe He’d Have to Just Keep Driving, or Pynchonon the Freeway | Stephen Hock
Contributors
Works Cited
Index