NYT book review Pynch mention

[Spencer Thiel]

Interesting review of Norman Mailer's bio _Mailer_ by Mary V. 
Dearborn.  The reviewer, Caleb Crain speculates about Mailer's first novel 
_The Naked and the Dead_ :

"[The Naked and the Dead] reads today as a solid trooper of a 
novel.  Occasionally it wheezes and chuffs as if it were a novel of 
ideas.  It isn't, though a few projectile curves traced in a general's 
diary probably gave Thomas Pynchon the title conceit of 'Gravity's Rainbow.'"

Anyone heard of this?
-st.