Hitchens on Pynchon

[rich]

wonder if it was about the banning of Larry Kramer's novel Faggots in the UK

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hitch was working for The New Statesman at the time.....elsewhere
> he has written that he asked if he could call him back.........
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> My guess is he had a story or book he wanted to tell him about---
> NOT one of his, of course---and trusted calling him because of McEwan.
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> Then, like the ringing pay phone story and like another friend of mine
> who hates telephones...he went away and decided to forget it.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 10:30:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Hitchens on Pynchon
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> find this whole thing odd. I mean why the fuck did he call the guy
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> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Q: You mention being introduced to J.D. Salinger?
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>> 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.
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>> Q: It's an odd notoriety.
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>> 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.
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>> http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-live-0609-hitchens-pr-2
>> 0100609,0,3675752.story
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>> Henry Mu
>> Sr. IT Analyst
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/
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