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I’m sorry, could you repeat that?

Back in June, we expressed surprise that the famously reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon had contributed a foreword to a new reissue of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Just a few weeks later, however, the online diarist responsible for the website Ohdog.org reported another unexpected Pynchon sighting. While supervising a voiceover for a lipstick commercial in New York on July 24, the diarist, a TV editor, learned that a “chatty” Pynchon had been in the same studio that day recording a guest appearance for The Simpsons.

Oh. Okay. I did hear you right the first time.

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