Pynchon sez he "doesn't like to talk to reporters" (1997)

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Compare also this inaccurate claim in the CNN report with the true story
detailed in _Salon_ below:

 http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/05/pynchon/

      He so shuns publicity that he doesn't allow his likeness
    to be used on book jackets. All known photographs of the man
    date to the early 1950s. Until Nancy Jo Sales of New York
    Magazine tracked him down last year, no reporter had interviewed
    him in four decades.

http://www.salon.com/media/media970120.html

    Sales, who surreptitiously followed the reclusive writer around
    for a day or two and watched him buy health food ...

A-and there's also that anecdote about him jumping out the window when
Norman Mailer came a-knockin'.

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