Having read a review of that Pynchon book, I’m intrigued by the Chums of Chance and other elements drawn from boy’s adventure fiction like that found in the Hall Collection. Here is an article by local Professor and Pynchon aficionado Tom Leclair.
And if you really want to get into it, check out BOOKFORUM’s summer 2005 issue devoted to the man.
-E . Scripsi
