My time in Texas is coming to an end. After three weeks at the Ransom Center, I’m returning to the Bay Area to start processing all my research. I found more than I expected, not only in the center’s V.-related materials but also in the Don DeLillo collection; the reverent letters that DeLillo [...]

There is much to say. I’m blogging from the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Last week, I read through all their Pynchon holdings: the typescript of V., 8 Pynchon letters (typed on graph paper, of course!), and notes/scenes from an unpublished manuscript/musical/dystopia called Mistral Island Pynchon co-wrote with J. Kirkpatrick Sale. [...]