Pynchon - Online Communities

Pynchonian Online Communities
The following are to Thomas Pynchon related mailing lists, clubs, & reading groups avaliable to users of the Internet.

Mailing Lists

Pynchon-L -- The Pynchon Mailing List

Click to: http://www.waste.org/pynchon-l/
And follow the instructions....
"But our beauty lies . . . in this extended capacity for convolution"

The Pynchon-L is a high-volume mailing list dedicated to the discussion of Pynchon and his works. It is a fairly serious and academic List, with many devoted people and some unusual personalities. In fact, the Pynchon-L has a reputation as being quite a challenging List, and it was even the subject of a book -- Jules Siegel's infamous Lineland. Newbies are welcome, but I'd advise lurking for a while to get the feel for the List etiquette before joining in. The Pynchon-L is now conducting simultaneous group readings of Vineland and Nabokov's Pale Fire.

The Thomas Pynchon eGroup

Click to: http://www.egroups.com/group/pynchon
And follow the instructions....

A fairly new mailing list, "This list is for anyone interested in the writings, life and any subjects peripheral to Thomas R. Pynchon."

Spiral-Bound

Go To: http://www.egroups.com/group/Spiral-Bound
Moderated & Founded by Allen B. Ruch

Created and maintained by The Modern Word, this list is open to all enthusiasts of experimental twentieth century literature. Pynchon is frequently discussed.

Other

Google's alt.books.thomas-pynchon

Click to: Google groups: alt.books.thomas-pynchon
For information and instructions on joining.

This is a low-volume Newsgroup hosted by Deja.com.

Tristero

Click to: http://www.tristero.co.uk
For information and instructions on joining.

Taking their name from Pynchon, Tristero is an interactive artistic community/project: "Sick of junk e-mails clogging-up your inbox? Ever wanted a digital waste-disposal facility that offers more than an 'unsubscribe' tag-line? Tristero invites you to send your least-wanted image, text, sound, and video files for creative re-cycling by a series of online artists-in-residence. By subscribing, you could provide the raw material for this series of online artworks."