Rushdie & Pynchon

[Matthew P Wiener]

>       In a related note, see the interesting interview in the
>October Progressive with Salmon Rushdie, in which Rushdie mentions
>actually meeting Pynchon--and meeting him, so to speak, as Pynchon
>(unlike Lotion, say, for whom Pynchon is just a kind of implausible
>groupie).  [...]

Rushdie, you will recall, reviewed VINELAND for the NYT.  He began
his review by commenting on the lack of book jacket information--
no photo, no city of residence.  It was something he could identify
with.  A hoot, a very palpable hoot.
--
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)