P's P's Please

[John Bailey]

Have we even discussed that piece at length? I reread it this morning
(thanks Tyler!) and it's a really extensive piece of research, maybe
the most extensive on Pynchon's bio? And he seems to be very familiar
with the writing itself, if not overly respectful of the desire for
privacy.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 7:56 PM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tyler,
>
> Thanks, I had forgetten about the Kachka piece. That must have been it, but
> I thought I had come across something that referred to his parents later
> years and a reconciliation of sorts.
>
> (What is the Pyn community consensus on the piece? I know that Jules
> Siegel's Playboy interview is sometimes called into question on grounds of
> motive (self-serving, revenge, etc.), but what about Boris' work?)
>
>    Ok, wait, you deserve big thanks my man. I went back to look at the
> Kachka piece and not only does it have the line you mention, but it also,
> further on, includes that in the 1990's, "Pynchon told friends he was seeing
> a lot more of his parents" which following what we know about Pynchon's
> politics and his parent's (father a Serious Republican and mother a serious
> catholic and likely anti-semite) allows us to infer that there was at least
> a rift of sorts that was then mended.
>
>   That's what I was after. I owe you a beer, or whatever.
>
> Very Appreciatively,
> Matt Cissell
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Matthew —
>>
>> Though it isn't stated explicitly, that information can be gleaned from a
>> couple passages of Boris Kachka's 2013 piece for Vulture:
>>
>> http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html
>>
>> " . . . he and his then-girlfriend, Mary Ann Tharaldsen, were driving
>> through Big Sur when she complained of nausea. She wanted to stop at a bar
>> and have a shot to settle her stomach. According to Tharaldsen, he exploded,
>> telling her he would not tolerate midday drinking. When she asked why, he
>> told her he’d seen his mother, after drinking,  accidentally puncture his
>> father’s eye with a clothespin. It was the only time, says Tharaldsen, who
>> lived with him, that he ever mentioned his family. “He was disconnected from
>> them,” she says. “There seems to have been something not good there.” "
>>
>> "Pynchon and Jackson married in 1990 and had a son—first name Jackson—a
>> year later. Pynchon told friends he was seeing a lot more of his parents. .
>> . . "
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> T
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:59 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear P-listers,
>>
>> I have a problem and that is that I could swear that I read somewhere that
>> Pynchon had been a bit estranged from his folks but that he eventually made
>> peace with them. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Where did that come
>> from? I can't find the source now. Was it from Phyllis Gebauer?
>>
>> Beseechingly,
>> mc otis
>
>
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