Pynchon's holiday

Joyce has Bloomsday on June 16th, but there's another literary holiday: get ready for May 8th's Pynchon in Public day! To celebrate the 'reclusive' high modernist/post-modernist writer Thomas Pynchon, people read in public and leave signs and stickers in publics spaces of Pynchonian symbols, like the W.A.S.T.E. muted trumpet or horn from The Crying of Lot 49. 

The American Pynchon [b. 1937] wrote: V., The Crying of Lot 49, the famous Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice [now a 2014 movie!], and Bleeding Edge. 

Many people have the trumpet as a tattoo, or stuck on a phone as a sticker. The new 2nd season of True Detective has been hinted to draw inspiration from CL49, and hopefully it's as great as the first season. Here's a list of Pynchonian links and sites to read more, and you can read/join the Pynchon mailing/discussion list.

Below, here's a great piece of graphic art for CL49, it's from here by Andrey Belikov!