Shortly after I met my wife-to-be, Mary Ann Tharaldson, she showed me two first edition books signed by her lover, Thomas Pynchon. I tried to read Gravity’s Rainbow, and V, but soon abandoned them. In researching Pynchon’s connections to Jazz, I discovered a character in V, called Vera Meroving. There is a wiki-Pynchon that says … Continue reading My Wedding Reception