Pynchon in New York

[pynchonoid]

Private, but not at all the antisocial "loon" who is
routinely ridiculed in this forum:

[...] Since about 1990, the 67-year-old author has,
like so many before him, found great privacy in the
crowded city. He hangs out with friends in his local
coffee shop, shops for groceries with his wife,
Melanie Jackson, a literary agent, and walks his son,
a young teenager, to Riverside Park. [...] Despite his
obsessive desire for privacy, Mr. Pynchon is
apparently no misanthrope, at least according to
Richard Lane, a film editor at NBC and a Pynchon
enthusiast. "He's got a wife and son whom he adores,''
Mr. Lane said. "He attends the birthday parties of his
kids' friends. He has close friends who deeply love
him and recognize the sensitivity of the man."

He likes New York, too. "He loved living here after
graduating from Cornell,'' Mr. Lane added. "And
there's plenty of cultural institutions where he can
enjoy his favorites, jazz and movies." [...] Part of
the city's appeal for recluses stems from the unspoken
agreement between New Yorkers and the famous:
acknowledge us with a wink, and we'll act cool and
suppress our desire to jump up and down and ask for an
autograph.

Mr. Pynchon doesn't even have to go that far, of
course. He has done such a great job of hiding in the
city that no one would recognize him anyway."

...read it all:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/nyregion/09pync.html


	
		
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