Pynchon sighting

[Mark Kohut]

A friend of mine in Chicago went to hear Salman Rushdie read from his latest book. He seemed to be bouyed by just having learned that Midnight's Children was voted the Best of the Bookers....

Then she wrote me this: ",,,when asked about the literary influence of Calvino and Pynchon, he admitted to being a “Pynchonista” and said, among other things, that he had actually met him once."...........

I'll bet it was when he was 'under the fatwa' and Pynchon
lived like he was/is. 

Rushdie did one of the most positive mainstream reviews of "Vineland". has mentioned GR in interviews....