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Pynchon on The Simpsons

When I was in graduate school, I was obsessed with finding Thomas Pynchon to discuss writing. I thought for a while that one of the profs at San Francisco State might be him -- they'd been at Princeton at the same time and their work, though the prof was a poet, had a lot of similar imagery. Pynchon was also rumored to be living in Northern California at the time. Then, in one of those weird moments a few years later, I was sitting with a movie producer at the House of Blues during Digital World who told me where Pynchon lived -- his address. I've never gone to bother him, but he is, as writers of fiction go, my god.

Now, Pynchon is going to be on The Simpsons with a bag on his head, and the producer thinks it is a bigger deal that J.K. Rowling is going to be on. Silly producer.

Thanks to Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing for the link.