Pynchon snub!

[Dave Monroe]

December 29, 2008 / News
A year in our neighborhoods
By The Brooklyn Paper Staff
The Brooklyn Paper


Though not everything we cover makes international headlines, each of
the neighborhoods we cover had some great stories that defined 2008
for its residents. Here are our favorite stories from the grassroots
level:

Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Cobble Hill

[...]

Pynchon snub!: Literary lion Thomas Pynchon was a no-show at a
backyard barbecue in his honor at wacky Freebird Books on Columbia
Street. But even if the author had shown up would anyone have
recognized the famously secretive writer? Hmmm …

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