In one of this man's short stories, a party thrown by Meatball Mulligan awakens Callisto, who has been nursing a bird back to health with her body heat.
In one of this man's short stories, a party thrown by Meatball Mulligan awakens Callisto, who has been nursing a bird back to health with her body heat. In one of his later novels, Prairie Wheeler searches for her mother Frenesi while her father Zoyd jumps through plate glass every year in order to prove he is insane. This man's first published short story collection was entitled Slow Learner, and his story "Under the Rose" contains characters such as Porpentine and Hugh Bongo-Shaftsbury, both of whom would later reappear in a novel about Herbert Stencil's search for the titular mysterious woman. Oedipa Maas becomes the executor of Pierce Inverarity's estate in a more famous novella by this writer, while Tyrone Slothrop attempts to evade the V2 rockets in his most famous work. For ten points, identify this author of Mason & Dixon, V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow.
In one of this man's short stories, a party thrown by Meatball Mulligan awakens Callisto, who has been nursing a bird back to health with her body heat.
Thomas {Pynchon}