Inside the list

[Ya Sam]

ALL-PYNCHON EDITION: Thomas Pynchon’s “Against the Day” steps onto the 
fiction list at No. 13. It may stay awhile — his last novel, “Mason & 
Dixon,” spent eight weeks here in 1997.

Pynchon is famously camera shy. So Entertainment Weekly recently asked a 
forensic artist to project, based on Pynchon’s 1955 high school yearbook 
photo, what the writer might look like today. (Image is at left.) The result 
is fascinating but a little creepy. Pynchon looks vaguely like a sex 
offender. Will this sketch finally flush Pynchon out of his lair and in 
front of, say, Marion Ettlinger’s ennobling camera? If only to get this 
police-blotter image out of our minds?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/review/10tbr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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