Pynchon, the normal guy

[David Morris]

Never read Lovecraft, but know about Chullu and hidden plans and such.  I
generally hate conspiracy fiction, unless it is very refined.  Even so, I
think it cheap.  So "Lovecraftian" fiction isn't a term I can easily try to
understand w/o prejudice.

That said, care to elaborate?

David Morris

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:44 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >
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