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Listen to Pynchon narrate a 2.5 minute video about Inherent Vice!

Read - or download - a PDF of the first chapter of Inherent Vice!

Check out our playlist of the artists & songs in Inherent Vice Unlike the 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 Alphabetical Index and the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at Inherent Vice covers, read the reviews, or entertain some theories on the source of the title.

1 Pynchon Narrates Inherent Vice Promotional Video
2 How to Use this Wiki
3 Alphabetical Index
4 Page by Page Annotations
5 Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines
6 External Links
7 Featured Articles
8 Image Gallery

Pynchon Narrates Inherent Vice Promotional Video

Can flying pigs be far behind?

Penguin Press confirms that the video is narrated by Pynchon. Source

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:

Inherent Vice Alpha Guide

A·B·C·D·E·F·G·H·I·J·K·L·M·N·O·P·Q·R·S·T·U·V·W·XYZ TOP↑

Page by Page Annotations

Chapter 1 pp. 1-18	Chapter 2 pp. 19-45	Chapter 3 pp. 46-49	Chapter 4 pp. 50-54	Chapter 5 pp. 55-67
Chapter 6 pp. 68-88	Chapter 7 pp. 89-110	Chapter 8 pp. 111-123	Chapter 9 pp. 124-153	Chapter 10 pp. 154-162
Chapter 11 pp. 163-185	Chapter 12 pp. 186-206	Chapter 13 pp. 207-234	Chapter 14 pp. 235-255	Chapter 15 pp. 256-274
Chapter 16 pp. 275-295	Chapter 17 pp. 296-314	Chapter 18 pp. 315-342	Chapter 19 pp. 343-350	Chapter 20 pp. 351-363
		Chapter 21 pp. 364-369

Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines

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We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

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 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 [[Category:IV]].

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

More help for this wiki available here.

External Links

The Modern Word: Inherent Vice

The Fictional Woods - a Pynchon forum

Featured Articles

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." Read the article...

The Inherent Vice Playlist
Songs mentioned in Inherent Vice

Unreleased Backgrounds
Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA