389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson)
The History of Literature
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My Eyesight Is Not What It Once Was
Thomas Wolfe is a famously reclusive author, maybe second to JD Salinger in terms of being famous for wanting to disappear. His latest work tells the story of a man who meets an old college acquaintance at an airport and what does that mean for our identity and ourselves? On his reading list was Gravity's Rainbow: "a book full of high and low culture, German philosophy, hundreds of characters" He appeared on The Simpsons twice; one time he crossed out a line where Homer referred to him as a fat ass because 'Homer is my role model'
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