When Authors Turn Reclusive

[Otto]

Tuesday, Sep 04
When Authors Turn Reclusive

In a piece that pretty much stems from Denis Johnson's blanket refusal
to do any press whatsoever for his brand new (and long-awaited) novel
TREE OF SMOKE, Scott Timberg at the LA Times investigates why authors
of a certain age - Salinger, Pynchon, Lee, and other usual suspects -
decided to shut themselves away from media and from publication and
why that's damn near impossible nowadays.

(...)

as David Kipen remarks, "It almost helps that there's no interviews
with Pynchon in print saying, 'I like to sit around in my underwear
and watch soap operas.' Because we don't want to know that."
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/when_authors_turn_reclusive_66272.asp