I must have run into this Pynchon fellow back when he was working on Gravity’s Rainbow. The reclusive author was living in Manhattan Beach and haunting the coastline of the South Bay of Los Angeles. During the same period Manhattan Beach and nearby Hermosa Beach were my teenage homes away from home, and the places where I hung out—Either/Or Bookstore, t…
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