Chabon on Meeting Pynchon

[Mark Thibodeau]

Oh my Christ... Pynchon loves made for TV dramas of the 70s. How
absolutely fucking perfect is that. No question mark, please. How
perfect is that. In the Jackie Gleason vernacular.

Jerky

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Rob Miller <robcmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> (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.
>>
>> 11
>> 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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