Extended imaginary run-ins with people like Thomas Pynchon ...

[Dave Monroe]

A Springsteen Band Mate Tells Stories, True or Imagined, Out of E Street
DWIGHT GARNER
Published: December 1, 2009


There’s not much that’s positive to say about “Big Man,” the new
memoir from Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen’s colossal saxophone
player and the man who, when he joined the E Street Band, made “all
the little pretties raise their hands.”

[...]

Let’s not even get into this book’s fictional “legend” chapters,
printed on gray paper, in which Mr. Clemons has extended imaginary
run-ins with people like Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, Richard
Brautigan and the surfer Laird Hamilton. It’s too painful.

[...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/books/02book.html