Drugs in Pynchon's fiction

[rj]

Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>:

> Re rj's observation that Pynchon hasn't granted any interviews, that's not
> exactly correct. Some months ago Chris K wrote:  "According to a story in
> the NY Observer written last year or so, TRP was interviewed via fax for
> David Hajdu's book about the Sixties as  depicted through the relationships
> between Richard and Mimi Farina and  Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.  It's called
> Children of Darkness, I think, but I don't have the clip handy."  I know
> that Pynchon also responded, through his agent, to questions posed by a
> P-lister by fax last year.

Thanks for this info. Still, the majority of articles and critiques
written about him continue to nurture this reputation that he has never
done, and never does, interviews (which was my point, really.) And I
also wonder whether this process of responding "through his agent" (also
his wife?) can actually be called an interview. Ditto the Hadju one. Eg.

MEL (calling): Hey, Tom, this fax just came in ...
(Tom is at the kitchen table, smoking an elaborate Moroccan hookah)
TOM:  . . . Wha . . . ?
MEL: They wanna know what Richard Farina was really like ... 
[TOM's eyes glow red through the Nirvanic mists. He smiles.]
TOM: Well, you know, he was just this guy . . .
MEL (only mock-exasperatedly): Oh forget it. I guess I'll just write it
myself, like all those book blurbs ...

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