UnderThePynfluence

Marisha Pessl's self-description:

"I like Zadie's writing, so that's a compliment, but obviously as a
novelist you want to forge your own path, even if it's a tiny path in a dark
corner of a yard no one will enter willingly except a few squirrels.
Personally, I see myself more as a Danielle Steele-meets-Pynchon-meets-Napoleon
Dynamite. But that's just me."

Why not Napoleon Bonaparte?

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-10-19/books_feature3.php

Thanks to Ya Sam for posting this to Pynchon-l.