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Episode 94 - Jeremy Alm
Evelyn Lamb: Yes, I am Evelyn Lamb, a freelance math and science writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I'm celebrating fall with a nice zoom background that none of our listeners can see of a lovely bike trail near me with decked out in fall colors. So I hope everyone appreciates that.
KK: So judging from Instagram this weekend, you took a train trip somewhere, and it looked really cool.
EL: I did. Yeah, because I'm a freelancer and have quite a bit of schedule flexibility, I do silly things like take the Amtrak for 24 hours to go to Omaha for the weekend and then take it back. And yeah, it was, it was fun.
KK: Why Omaha, just out of curiosity?
EL: Singing, which shouldn't surprise people who know me.
KK: Sure, yeah. Well, I did none of that. I was on an NSF panel last week. That was my big,
EL: Slightly different adventure.
KK: You know, but it's important work. I mean, it really is. And and our listeners, if you happen to get asked to be on an NSF panel, you should do it. It's very interesting and important work. So anyway, now I'm back home, where I’m doing — no, it was here. It was a Zoom panel, but also that was the extent of my week last week. Now that I'm in the Dean's office, which I don't think we've actually mentioned. So I was chair of my department for six years. Now I am an interim associate dean in our college, and one of my responsibilities is that I'm in charge of the college tenure promotion committee, and that committee meets three days a week, at 8am.
EL: Oh, that's great.
KK: That is not my jam at all. And then so twice last week I had T & P first thing in the morning, followed by, you know, seven hours of NSF proposals.
EL: Yeah.
KK:
Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (PIN-chon,commonlyPIN-chən; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel, Mason & Dixon, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim. His 2009 novel Inherent Vice was adapted into a feature film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, Bleeding Edge, was published in 2013.
Early life
Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996), a nurse. During his childhood, Pynchon alternately attended church at an Episcopal church with his father and a Catholic church with his mother.
Education and naval career
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