one more RE: is Pynchon a recluse?

[Doug Millison]

In April 1964, Pynchon tells Ms. Donadio he is facing a creative crisis,
with four novels in process. With sudden bravado, he says, "If they come out
on paper anything like they are inside my head, then it will be the literary
event of the millennium." If so, he wryly suggests that Alfred Knopf and
Bennett Cerf will have a duel to see which one will be be his publisher. 
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