TRP & Don B.

[Erik T. Burns]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/books/news/3200121

Pynchon also moans about suffering from writer's block and feeling "like a
one-shot flash-in-the-pan amateur." He jokes that he thought he saw
Barthelme in Greenwich Village but didn't approach him "on the off-chance it
was Solzhenitsyn" — a reference to Barthelme's distinctive facial hair. For
a return address, Pynchon listed his literary agent.

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