a total recluse except for an apparent willingness to make bad puns of his book titles on The Simpsons
(from Wikipedia)
Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity: very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumours about his location and identity have been circulated since the 1960s.
Pynchon himself has made two cameo appearances on the animated television series The Simpsons. In both cameos, his face is drawn covered by a paper bag to preserve his anonymity. His second appearance, on the sixteenth-season premiere “All’s Fair in Oven War”, features a sequence of puns. Tasting a wasabi-flavoured chicken wing, he comments:
- “These wings are V.-licious! I’ll put this recipe in my Gravity’s Rainbow Cookbook, right next to The Frying of Latke 49.”
(added 6/22/09: Robert Goolrick on Searching for Thomas Pynchon)
(added 8/20/19: The Unoffical Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles)