Pynchon, the normal guy

[Mark Thibodeau]

How is the Joshi?

I've been following Joshi's career and reading his Black Wings of Cthulhu
collections, representing the best of contemporary Lovecraftian short
fiction (of multiple different types... and featuring some wonderful stuff,
as well as some mediocrities, unfortunately), and was thinking of picking
up his more academically grounded work.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:36 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
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