Hitchens on Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Henry!,

Mucho thanks for this....it, besides busyness and his own needs, this leads me to think him finding
Pynchon's privacy needs 'suspect' is another reason he never responded to my essay trying to
argue that P's privacy came out of his vision of the world..

And I had met Hitch and invoked a couple-three others he knew better (in publishing). 

And this also confirms what i thought I had read but could never find again: fact that Pynchon
and McEwan are/were friends......

More pure spec: he and P bonded over their early work....bet TRP does not like the later work
much---as most of us don't. Just bloviating, of course. 


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 10:27:07 AM
Subject: Hitchens on Pynchon

Q: You mention being introduced to J.D. Salinger?

A: No, I never was. Oh, I understand. Introduced to his books. That's right.
I did, however, once get a call from Thomas Pynchon, though, and if
anything, he's been less approachable. I said, "Yeah, yeah, it's Thomas
Pynchon." But he established he certainly was Thomas Pynchon. He is a friend
of my friend Ian McEwan. I made a bid to try and meet up with him and he
said, "Oh, no, no, that's all right" and hung up.

Q: It's an odd notoriety.

A: Yes it is. I find it rather creepy. It seems like a long way for someone
to go in order to seek the love of others, a strange way of avoiding one's
notoriety. If you want to avoid publicity, you should probably not make a
huge sensation about the avoiding part. I find it rather suspect.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-live-0609-hitchens-pr-2
0100609,0,3675752.story 

Henry Mu
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