Dangerous Minds pal Michael Backes writes:

Thomas Pynchon is the reclusive author of Gravity’s Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland and…  Forget that.  All the Pynchon stuff starts that way.  Cut to the good stuff.  Thomas Pynchon is a very, very smart and extremely funny writer and one of the greatest novelists of all time.  He values his privacy.  Pynchon loves history, women, science, song and weed.

His brilliant novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, is filled with song lyrics.  Very funny song lyrics.  Daniel Couch  organized the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book Project to embark upon setting Pynchon’s lyrics to music.  Thirty-seven people from four states helped the project become reality.

Have a listen here.

Aside from the fact that my uncle was the lawyer in The Crying of Lot 49 (just kidding) I actually know not one, not two, but in fact four people who have met Thomas Pynchon. One of them even made him a curry!

Below, the speculative (for what else could it be?) Pynchon documentary A Journey Into the Mind of P