Chabon on Meeting Pynchon

[Rob Miller]

Did you ever get to meet Pynchon? I met him one time. Out of the blue, I
used whatever secret channels I could avail myself of to invite him to
lunch.

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I said I was coming to New York and I had just read Against the Day, which
I completely loved — my second favorite of his books, or maybe even almost
a tie with Gravity’s Rainbow. I said, Why not? What’s the worst that can
happen? He won’t answer or he’ll say no. And to my surprise he accepted my
invitation through many, many intermediaries—cutouts, they call them in spy
novels. I took him to lunch at a steak restaurant down on the West Side. I
don’t know why I thought he would like the steak restaurant. It turns out
he was not a super-big meat-eating kind of dude.

Was it a fun conversation? It was a very curious conversation. It was very
much like having a conversation with a character in a Thomas Pynchon novel.
There was a lot of talk about made-for-television movies of the 1970s.

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