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[[Image:IV-book-lg.jpg|350px|right]]<big>'''Welcome to the ''Inherent Vice'' Wiki!'''</big>

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*[[Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice|'''Check out our playlist of the artists & songs in ''Inherent Vice''''']] Unlike the [http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000413861 Pynchon-provided playlist on Amazon.com], ours provides video & audio of the songs.

This is the newly created Wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Inherent Vice''. Besides using the [[IV_Alpha_Nav|Alphabetical Index]] and the [[Inherent_Vice_-_Page_by_Page|page-by-page annotation]], you can also take a look at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis|''Inherent Vice'' covers]], read the [[Inherent Vice Reviews|reviews]], or [[Inherent Vice Title|entertain some theories on the source of the title]].

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Professor Don Larrson, he of the Companion's Companion to ''Inherent Vice'' (which was rolled into this wiki), reviews Steve Weisenburger's the second, revised edition of ''A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel''. [[Weisenburger's Companion, 2nd Edition|Read it...]].

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Inherent Vice''''']]</div>

==Pynchon Narrates ''Inherent Vice'' Promotional Video==

'''''Can flying pigs be far behind?'''''

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Penguin Press confirms that the video is narrated by Pynchon. [http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/08/11/thomas-pynchon-speaks-inherent-vice-trailer/ Source]

[[Comments_and_Questions_re_the_Promo_Video|'''Read  and participate in  a discussion of this video »''']]

==How to Use this Wiki==

There are two major ways to use this wiki. The first is the '''''Inherent Vice'' Alphabetical Index''', used to keep track of the myriad characters, real and imagined, as well as events, arcana, and lots of other stuff. The second is the '''Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page''', which allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from those, it's up to you.

==Alphabetical Index==
Information on the characters, events, and everything else in ''Inherent Vice'', organized alphabetically:{{IV_Alpha_Nav}}

==Page by Page Annotations==
{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

== Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines==

[[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']]

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* When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on this ''Inherent Vice'' Wiki]]'''. If a page already exists, please modify that one.

* When creating a new page, if its information pertains to one (and only one) specific Pynchon novel, please categorize it with the appropriate identifier. For example, a page pertaining to ''Inherent Vice'', should use the syntax <code><nowiki>[[Category:IV]]</nowiki></code>.

* To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index, create one using the [[A|entry on Peter Tait]] as an example. Basically, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg <nowiki>[[Name Discussion|DISCUSSION]]</nowiki>) and notice that the visible name will be "DISCUSSION" in full caps, so it stands out a bit.

* [[Help:Contents|More help for this wiki available here.]]

==External Links==

* [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
: [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_vice.html The Modern Word: Inherent Vice]
: [http://z11.invisionfree.com/thefictionalwoods/index.php The Fictional Woods] - a Pynchon forum
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [http://inherentvice.wordpress.com Inherent Vice blog] A blog filled in while reading Inherent Vice
* [http://twitter.com/viceinherent Inherent Vice on Twitter]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherent_Vice Wikipedia Inherent Vice page]
* [http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/pl_print_1708 Wired Magazine Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles]
* [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html Thomas Pynchon in Manhattan Beach]
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574318360877609486.html ''The Wall Street Journal'': Pynchon’s Drugstore Thriller (July 30, 2009)]
* [http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/on/thomas_pynchon_tv_123248.asp GalleyCat's Jason Boog stitched together vintage footage of 1970s California, private detectives, old-time computers, and some choice passages from ''Inherent Vice'']

==Featured Articles==

[[image:buckaroosmall.jpg|left|thumb|190px]] '''Pynchon and Comics''' - Sean Rogers: "Ever attuned to the lower frequencies of American culture, the wavelengths where rock and roll and monster movies and The Tube all play out, Pynchon is an author who can ably salt away a few references to comics, too, throughout his works. The guy hips himself to so many things—from 18th century naval battles to Jacobean revenge drama to the intricacies of rhinoplasty—that to happen across nods to underground comics, or moral outlooks articulated by way of classic cartooning like George Herriman’s comic strip Kat, is simply par for a very wide-ranging course." [http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/08/12/pynchon-and-comics/ Read the article...]

'''The ''Inherent Vice'' Playlist'''<br />
[[Songs mentioned in Inherent Vice]]

'''Unreleased Backgrounds<br />
[[Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA]]

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==Image Gallery==
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