Pynchon's Son a Big Man on Campus

[Will Layman]

That's DEFINITELY not TRP in the photo next to Jackson.  Looks  
nothing like the old photos, and I'd bet my last piaster that the kid  
-- however rebellious -- isn't about to "out" his own dad.

P-List jazz fans: please note that Pynchon-the-younger lists Davis,  
Coltrane et al as favorite musicians.  McClintock Sphere lives on . . .

-- Will

On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:10 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> I'll second that "privileged life" - of course we all
> are blessed, but Upper West Side Manhattan is a pretty
> nice place to be if your Dad is an
> internationally-known and respected and successful
> artist from a family with deep American Establishment
> roots. Pynchon does a pretty good job of undercutting
> all that in his work, which I think shows the futility
> of much of what people do, but the irony remains.
>
> Either TRP didn't heed the P-list warning about
> Jackson's online action and get the lad out of the
> public eye, or Jackson is something of a rebellious
> youth, maybe? Looks like a good kid.
>
> Any odds that's really Pynchon in the picture next to
> Jackson?
>
>
>
> --- rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i suspect Pynchon would ackowledge the irony of a
>> magazine article on his
>> son, said magazine headed "guide to new york's
>> privelaged life"
>>
>> rich
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/06, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "NOWHERE MAN One of the few published photos of
>> PynchonAuthor Thomas
>>> Pynchon
>>> is one of the most determinedly private people on
>> the planet. His son? Not
>>> so much.
>>>
>>> Fifteen-year-old Jackson Pynchon enjoys yoga, acid
>> jazz, and the films of
>>> Spike Lee. All this information, and more, is
>> available in his profile on
>>> the social networking site Facebook.com. It
>> requires permission to view,
>>> but
>>> that's not difficult to obtain; unlike his father,
>> the famously reclusive
>>> author of mega-cult classics Gravity's Rainbow,
>> The Crying of Lot 49, and
>>> V., Pynchon fils apparently welcomes interaction
>> with the public. He has
>>> 635
>>> friends in his network, including 182 at his New
>> York City prep school,
>>> Collegiate........."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/10/pynchon.php
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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