Pynchon as "recluse"

[Craig Smith]

> Pynchon being interviewed by Charlie Rose, say, might
> prove a PR and media event, perhaps uncomfortable, but
> for reasons entirely of Pynchon's own making.  And if
> a civil conversation--about his novels, about American
> literature generally, about science and technology,
> about the influence on him or lack thereof of Melville
> and Joyce, about the coming elections, etc.--would be
> an unthinkable, perhaps terrifying event, then, I
> think it's fair to say that Pynchon likely has some
> serious agrophobic problems or is what might
> charitably be called "eccentric."

Either that, or it's a subtle and friendly way of telling "celebrity culture" to fuck off?


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