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                       Copyright 1996 The News Tribune   
                                  News Tribune

                              May 17, 1996, Friday

SECTION: General; Pg. A12

LENGTH: 399 words

HEADLINE: PEOPLE: LITERARY INTEREST CAUSING A STIR FOR MTV'S SOREN

BYLINE: Compiled from news services by Yoko Kuramoto

BODY:
. . .
   Thomas Pynchon, among the most reclusive of writers - only two known
photos extant - has done an Esquire piece on the rock band Lotion in the
issue out this week.

   Band member Bill Ferguson said the novelist approached the group members
two years ago as they toured the Midwest.

   They just knew him as "Tom" until three months later, when he saw one of
them reading "Gravity's Rainbow" and said: "That's mine."

   Ferguson says Pynchon, 59, looks like a cross between his 1959 Cornell U.
yearbook mug shot "and Santa Claus."

   Pynchon, in liner notes for Lotion's latest album, "Nobody's Cool," notes
that "rock and roll remains one of the last honorable callings, and a working
band is a miracle of everyday life. Which is exactly what these guys do."
. . .