- The line "Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind" in English rock band Radiohead's 2003 song "Scatterbrain" was inspired by a passage from the novel.[7]
- Mimi and Richard Fariña's 1965 debut album, Celebrations for a Grey Day, includes an instrumental entitled "V." which is linked directly to the novel in the liner notes.[8]
- A suite of songs on the 1969 album Volume Two by Soft Machine is titled "Esther's Nose Job", referring to Chapter 4: "In which Esther gets a nose job."[9]
- The English band Benny Profane took their name from Pynchon's character.[10]
- The Insect Trust's 1970 album Hoboken Saturday Night includes the song "Eyes of a New York Woman", with lyrics taken from the novel. The same lyrics form the basis of a different song, "V. in Love", from the album Colour Out of Space by Favorite Color.[11]
- Alan Moore's V for Vendetta includes the title character V quoting and reading from Pynchon's book.
- Some aspects of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012) are based on V., such as the protagonist being a discharged sailor and his connection with a cult-like group of individuals.
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