Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

...in a Newsday.com review of Tim O'Brien's new novel, _July, July_:

"But it's not even this two-bit pathos that is so off-putting. It's the
preposterous back story he bears, as the perennial fat guy who loses the
pounds and then, in order to get the girl, pretends to be a Thomas Pynchon-
like Reclusive Great Author hiding behind an executive's pinstripes."

Wishing Some of the Class Had Missed the Reunion
By Dan Cryer
STAFF WRITER

October 10, 2002
BOOK REVIEW
JULY, JULY, by Tim O'Brien. Houghton Mifflin, 322 pp., $26.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/local/newyork/ny-p2bottom22958346oct10,0,72
03368.story?coll=ny-nyc-entertainment-headlines