Franzen and Pynchon

[Joseph Tracy]

There is an article in the new Harper's(sept 2013) by J Franzen  titled A Different Kind of Father in which he reviews the role of Pynchon as a literary "father" he later rejected.

The issue also has a good article by  William Vollman on his experience  with the FBI  and Border Agents along with FOIA research into his FBI files. For no discernible reason he was a suspect in the unabomber case. Not quite Slothrop but Kafkaesque with a side of Marx brothers.