Our boy Pynchon

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 09:59:38 CDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/18/08, nbryant2 <nbryant2 at mail.rochester.edu> wrote:
>
> > This might be a stupid question, but why has our oh so faithful author remained
> > anonymous in the picture category.
>
> A couple/three guesses, at least.  1.  So he won't be recogized on the street et al.;

It's not like he's really a celebrity, is it?  Literature geeks might
be problematic, but I doubt it. Can you really imagine Pynchon
paparazzi?   His celebrity is more a result of his famed avoidance of
same than his writing.

David Morris



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