Pynchon sighting

[Joe Allonby]

The NYT Book Review had Rushdie review Vineland. I thought it was a nice
little in-joke: author in hiding reviews book by author in hiding.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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....
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> 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."...........
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> I'll bet it was when he was 'under the fatwa' and Pynchon
> lived like he was/is.
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> Rushdie did one of the most positive mainstream reviews of "Vineland". has
> mentioned GR in interviews....
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