In addition to writing Inherent Vice and The Crying of Lot 49, this author described Tyrone Slothrop's search for the V-2 rocket in another novel.
This author's newest novel is about a private detective who travels to the lost continent of Lemuria from the fictional California town of Gordita Beach, named Doc Sportello. In an earlier novel by this man, a secret postal system called WASTE is run by Pierce Inverarity, whose death leads Oedipa Maas to attend the titular auction. In addition to writing Inherent Vice and The Crying of Lot 49, this author described Tyrone Slothrop's search for the V-2 rocket in another novel. For 10 points, name this famously reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow .
This author's newest novel is about a private detective who travels to the lost continent of Lemuria from the fictional California town of Gordita Beach, named Doc Sportello.
Thomas Ruggles {Pynchon}, Jr.