Caterina writes:
I’m always interested in how little people sleep, seeing as how I’m a terrible insomniac myself. Rumor has it that [Thomas] Pynchon sleeps til noon or one, but then works non-stop until three in the morning.
But, then again, just about everything about Thomas Pynchon is rumor, isn’t it? The only known photographs of the man date back to the early 1950s, he doesn’t actively promote his novels, and he has been interviewed only once in the past forty years. Presumably, no one but his agent and editor could tell you when, or even if, he sleeps. I certainly couldn’t. I’ve never even read any of his books.