Chabon on Meeting Pynchon

[Rob Miller]

(Sorry if formatting is weird. Sent from phone. Gmail is weird. Excited to
read Moonglow.)
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:28 PM Rob Miller <robcmiller at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/michael-chabon-moonglow-c-v-r.html
>
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