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[Michael Crowley]

Anyone else see anything like this?  I read it in the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution:

Reclusive novelist breaks his silence
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When Thomas Pynchon speaks, CNN listens.
	The notoriously reclusive novelist called the the Cable News
Network on Wednesday to discuss a planned story about him, and wound up
giving what is believed to be his first answer to a journalist in 40
years:
	"My belief is, 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists
meaning 'doesn't like to talk to reporters,'" Pynchon said.
	The acclaimed and mysterious author of Gravity's Rainbow and the
recent novel Mason & Dixon has not posed for a photograph since the 1950s.
He is second only to J.D. Salinger of The Catcher in the Rye fame as an
author obsessed with guarding his privacy.
	When Pynchon, 60, heard that CNN was preparing the feature, he
called an acquaintance who works for CNN's New York bureau.  The CNN
staffer passed the author on to Atlanta headquarters, where he spoke to
the senior producer.
	The Pynchon piece airs at 10 tonight during CNN's The World Today.
It includes a Manhattan crowd scene with Pynchon in it, but does not point
him out.
	"We decided to respect his privacy, said CNN spokesman Steve
Haworth.
---Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, Thursday, June 5, 1997
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He's the guy in the Godzilla shirt.



Mike Crowley
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crowley at arches.uga.edu

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