Do you think people would be as fascinated with what Famously! Reclusive! Writer! Thomas Pynchon looks like if they knew that he is a perfectly ordinary-looking middle-aged man who wears red baseball caps? (Or was 10 years ago anyway.)

Based on this guy’s obsessive analyzing a short video clip of Pynchon walking down the street, I guess not.

Pynchon’s new book came out this month. I’m not likely to read it. I’m just being realistic here: I still haven’t read Gravity’s Rainbow and only got one-third of the way through Mason and Dixon. However, The Crying of Lot 49 still remains one of my favorite books.

Thanks to Bookninja for the link.