Subject: Recluses: Salinger and Pynchon
From: DAVID M. QUINTIERI (dmqqq@aztec.asu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 1997 - 16:42:16 GMT
Since I am new to this list, I don't know if this has been
covered before. So, if this is redundant, you have my apology.
I am sure many of you are familiar with an article about Jerome
David Salinger appearing at page 48 of the June issue of ESQUIRE
magazine. The article is titled "The Man in the Glass House" by
Ron Rosenbaum.
There is an interesting article about Thomas Pynchon by Nancy Jo
Sales which appeared at page 60 of the November 11, 1996 issue
of NEW YORK magazine. The article is titled "Meet Your
Neighbor, Thomas Pynchon." It discusses Pynchon's life and
relates how the staff at NEW YORK mag discovered his address in
about ten minutes using an openly accessible online service.
Pynchon lives in New York City quite openly, and there is a
photo purportedly of him taken from the rear walking hand and
hand with his small child down a New York City street. There is
a bookstore out in Hermosa Beach, CA in the LA area which claims
that Pynchon used to visit there all the time while he lived
nearby. Whether this is true or not is hard to say, but the
article does mention that Pynchon did live at nearby Manhattan
Beach for a while, so maybe the rumor about the bookstore is
true.
The thing that was most interesting and frightening about the
article to me was how easily they could find him using the
Internet. This is the very type of intrusiveness that Pynchon
has been inveighing against for a long time, and for which he
has been criticized as being paranoid. Well, as the old
expression says, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the
world is still not out to get you.
Take care.
---David Q.---
e-mail address: dmqqq@aztec.asu.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Mon Oct 09 2000 - 15:02:01 GMT