For the 50th installment of The Floating Library, I take a look at a Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. An excerpt:

A friend of mine went into a bookstore in Los Angeles and asked the man behind the counter if they had a copy of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. My friend had heard the buzz surrounding the film adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, and he wanted to read the novel first. A reasonable request, but the bookseller wasn’t accommodating.

“You don’t want to read that,” he said.

Read the rest of the column here. Thanks for taking this voyage into books with me — here’s to the next 50!