Pynchon's Son a Big Man on Campus

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< 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. >>

There is little connection between "deep American Establishment roots" and 
the upper west side, which is, traditionally, somewhat excepted by CPW, far more 
Jewish than (tradtitionally) the corresponding blocks on the east side.