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...exceptionally private Pynchon, whose brilliant post-modern novels include V, The Crying of Lot 49 and the magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, hasn't released a new book since 1997's Mason & Dixon. Only a handful of photos exist of the author, 69, mainly from his school days and the most recent a dodgy paparazzi-type shot in 1998. A CNN crew had filmed him the previous year, but the news network decided not to identify him after Pynchon, who reportedly lives in New York, called to complain. "Let me be unambiguous," he told the news channel. "I prefer...
...painting was sold when the William M. V. Kingsland Estate went on the auction block this past weekend...
...thrown back by the fact that the pub is expected to open in late spring, when I was under the impression that it would be ready for operation at the beginning of second semester,” said Jon T. Staff V ’10, who attended the breakfast...
...painting was sold when the William M. V. Kingsland Estate went on the auction block this past weekend...
...argued the famous 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick, urging the court to invalidate a Georgia anti-sodomy law that, Tribe said, violated his gay client’s fundamental right to private sexual association. Tribe lost, but he was redeemed 17 years later when, sitting in a packed courtroom, he heard Justice Anthony Kennedy say, “Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today...