Salman Rushdie's Dinner with Thomas Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

Friday, Jul 17
Salman Rushdie's Dinner with Thomas Pynchon


fLast night a crowd of literature lovers filled up Three Lives & Co.
bookstore and spilled into the West Village street for a literary
block party--celebrating the release of Granta 107. Among the
attendees were Zadie Smith, Joshua Ferris, John Wray, and Granta
acting editor John Freeman.

During the festivities, GalleyCat caught up with Salman Rushdie
(pictured, via), who just finished a screenplay draft for his classic
novel, "Midnight's Children." The author said he was looking forward
to reading a copy of Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice" this summer. "It
sounds like his most lighthearted book since Vineland," he told this
reporter, recalling a dinner he had with the reclusive Pynchon while
reviewing "Vineland" for the NY Times.

"He was extremely Pynchon-eque. He was the Pynchon I wanted him to
be," explained Rushdie. He wouldn't describe the secretive author, but
wished he could have befriended Pynchon. "He never called again,"
Rushdie concluded, ruefully.

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