Pynchon's faxed interview with Hajdu

[Doug Millison]

"Hajdu conducted hundreds of interviews for each of his books, but 
his favorite source is someone he's never met.  The reclusive Thomas 
Pynchon, who was a close friend of Farina's, replied (by fax) to an 
extensive list of questions and permitted Hajdu to quote from his 
correspondence. 'This is the guy who enjoined the Morgan Library from 
making his letters available to scholars until after his death!' 
exclaims the author, who describes their epistolary exchanges as 'one 
of the most exhilerating research experiences of my life.' By 
contast, although he dutifully pursued Dylan, he never really 
expected the elusive musician to see him. Fortunately Hajdu got 
access to the unpublished transcripts of interviews Dylan gave the 
late Robert Shelton for his 1986 biography _No Direction Home_."

from:
"PW Interview
David Hajdu
Joan & Bob & Richard & Mimi"
June 11, 2001 Publisher's Weekly, p. 52


So, I'm betting Hajdu has more material than the slim pickings from 
and about Pynchon that he included in the book. Depending on his 
agreement with P, I'd expect a magazine article (The New Yorker would 
be a good venue, and a good-paying gig for Hajdu) or perhaps a slim 
book based on the Hajdu-Pynchon exchanges.  You heard it here first.

This should put an end to the repetition of the received wisdom that 
Pynchon doesn't talk to journalists, too.