Salman Dinner

[Henry Musikar]

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/salman_rushdies_dinner_with_tho
mas_pynchon_121888.asp 

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.

Henry Musikar
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