{"id":33017,"date":"2021-11-21T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=33017"},"modified":"2021-11-21T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T19:33:00","slug":"is-thomas-pynchon-tweeting-his-hollywood-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2021\/11\/21\/is-thomas-pynchon-tweeting-his-hollywood-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Thomas Pynchon tweeting his Hollywood memories?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people with way too much time on their hands have apparently come up with a theory that<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamHarpoon\/with_replies\"> legendary author and semi-recluse Thomas Pynchon is on Twitter<\/a>, posting gossip and memories of Hollywood in the 1970s in the guise of a fictional producer-director named Sam Harpoon, who happens to be a character with a bit part in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s new movie &#8220;Licorice Pizza.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Begelman wasn\u2019t the only studio head to pocket other people\u2019s money. I\u2019m convinced for years Jerry Perenchio was putting his Bergdorf account on the expense sheet for \u201cThe Hills Like Rams\u201d but no one at Embassy said anything because he gave nice Xmas gifts. Out of my pocket! SH.<\/p>&mdash; Sam Harpoon (@SamHarpoon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamHarpoon\/status\/1462470250083991553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ThomasPynchon\/comments\/qrnq1c\/is_thomas_pynchon_secretly_tweeting_for_paul\/\">From Reddit<\/a>:<br><br>&#8220;It\u2019s fairly obvious this is a legit account \u2013 it\u2019s followed by most of the cast\/crew from the film, as well as other directors like Rian Johnson and the Safdie Brothers (one of which stars in the film). [\u2026] Besides these tweets all reading exactly like Pynchon \u2013 the account also has an odd number of references to his work, including an homage to the 50th anniversary of Gravity\u2019s Rainbow in his Twitter bio. [\u2026] We know TP and PTA are friends, and him secretly tweeting a micro novel\u2019s worth of fictional 70\u2019s film history feels so Pynchonesque I can\u2019t help but believe it\u2019s him.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P.S. I got all of this from Max Read&#8217;s excelle<a href=\"https:\/\/maxread.substack.com\/p\/web3-has-a-dork-problem?r=2gay&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=copy\">nt newsletter, which you can find here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people with way too much time on their hands have apparently come up with a theory that legendary author and semi-recluse Thomas Pynchon is on Twitter, posting gossip and memories of Hollywood in the 1970s in the guise of a fictional producer-director named Sam Harpoon, who happens to be a character with a bit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2021\/11\/21\/is-thomas-pynchon-tweeting-his-hollywood-memories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Thomas Pynchon tweeting his Hollywood memories?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}