Pynchon, the normal guy

[rich]

i doubt I would even talk about his work if I ever got the chance to meet
Mr Pynchon. Probably Godzilla or favorite beer.
He strikes me as a normal guy in that sense.
I mean he's not HP Lovecraft (finally reading Joshi's exhaustive biography
thereof.)

rich

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am conversationally friendly with a NYC writer online named
> Margo Howard. She wrote something about not showing up for the
> Nobel Prize and I did my bit---that is what the Swedish Academy most fears
> as I've said here and why no Pynchon win, etc.
>
> She then riffed on TRP's reclusiveness, asking me about it, etc, esp with
> his wife, his agent, etc.
> Then she said that a young man who was her assistant on a recent book did
> get to meet Mr. Pynchon. Pronounced him "normal" to her.
>
> That's all I got, folks. And it ain't much, I know.
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>