Pynchon mention: the opposite of "reclusive" & an "inexpensive salvo"

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http://www.arizonarepublic.com/smartliving/articles/0103gabaldon03.html

Writer's a 'born storyteller' - and multitasker 

By Richard Nilsen
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 3, 2003

Diana Gabaldon is a fire hose.

Whether she is talking to a visitor or writing novels
in half-million-word chunks, words pour out in a
torrent from this tiny woman.

You struggle to keep up.

"Well, most novelists are exhibitionists by nature,"
she says. "And when you find one who isn't, like
Salinger or Pynchon, you kind of wonder what they're
hiding - in poor Tom Pynchon's case, this is all too
evident, if you've ever seen the sole known picture of
him.

"I love talking about books - any books, but in
particular my own - and if that can be done with
somebody who actually likes books in general and
understands what writing is . . . well . . . .

"So far, I think, I've seen four or five hundred
published articles, interviews, et cetera, concerning
myself. They're invariably entertaining, I'll say that
much. Der Stern - German equivalent of Newsweek - just
sent me one they did, with the headline, ' "I like
men," says the bestselling American author Diana
Gabaldon . . . and she is an expert!' "

The Valley resident and author is more than a
bestseller. Her Outlander series of novels has some 12
million copies, translated into 16 languages -
including a new deal to sell them in China.

The five books in the series, averaging 700 to 1,000
pages, tell the story of an English nurse in 1945 who
accidentally touches a magic rock in Scotland and is
transported to 1745, where she finds war and rebellion
and a handsome man. [...] "


-Doug

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