Thomas Pynchon Returns to New York, Where He's Always Been

[David Morris]

You could write for the Onon.

On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, Monte Davis wrote:

> New York, 18 June (P-List Exclusive): ****
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> In a divorce filing today, Melanie Jackson revealed that her husband
> Thomas Pynchon was the secret author of 173 articles about his reclusive
> self, from the first planted by Corlies Smith and Candida Donadio in 1964
> to the most recent on the Atlantic Wire website. ****
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> “Tom, Cork, Candida, the Sales, Wanda T, Jerry Salinger, Ray Roberts and I
> – the whole publicity team – have been doing 'viral' since before you
> losers got your first Apple I," she told reporters. “Jackson’s already got
> two dozen anonymized tweets ready to go about his dad sneaking around the
> Inherent Vice premiere.”  ****
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> In related news, Sotheby’s announced the auction of a faded 1948 snapshot
> showing “the back and most of the legs” of the 11-year-old Pynchon in a
> tug-of-war match during a fifth-grade field day in Oyster Bay. The reserve
> price is said to be $40,000.****
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> Mr. Pynchon had no comment.****
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> *On Behalf Of *Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:20 AM
> *To:* Dave Monroe; pynchon -l
> *Subject:* Re: Thomas Pynchon Returns to New York, Where He's Always Been*
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> > What he really doesn’t like is being recognized for who he is, by people
> he does not know.
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> Few authors like this, I guess.
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> From a reader's perspective I can contribute two stories:
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> In September 1990 I was in Paris to brush up my French. One afternoon I
> was walking the 16th arrondissement and turned into one of those tiny,
> narrow alleys. From the other direction came Austrian author Peter Handke
> who is known for his bad mood in public. (At a press conference he once
> told a journalist: "Gehn' Sie und lassen Sie sich ficken!") The problematic
> thing about the concrete situation was that the alley, as already said, was
> very narrow and small, and so we had to find a careful way to pass each
> other by without accident. Well, we succeeded and, to be honest, I enjoyed
> the asymmetrical perspective. Handke, who realized that I had recognized
> him, knew nothing about me, but I knew so many things about him. This made
> him aggressive, as I could see during the actual passing by, but since he's
> not grown tall he didn't say anything.
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> Some weeks ago I saw Joachim Lottmann, whose funny novels "Deutsche
> Einheit" and "Unter Ärzten" I just had read, in Hamburg on Eppendorfer
> Baum. First I wasn't sure and thought "Is this perhaps  Lottmann?", but in
> this very moment he, although more than 20 meters away, turned his head
> into my direction and started to stare at me in a very paranoid way.
> Prominent people do have antennas for this. Yes, it was Lottmann. My smile
> did not really relax him.
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> On 18.06.2013 10:09, Dave Monroe wrote:****
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> http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/06/thomas-pynchon-back-new-york/66140/****
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