Quiz: How many of these crazy Thomas Pynchon stories are real?

Thomas Pynchon leads an incredibly private life. The author of post-modern literature including cult classics V and The Crying of Lot 49 has rarely been photographed. And he refuses almost all interviews. That's why there's so much buzz this week about the movie he's rumoured to make a cameo in. The film is called Inherent Vice, and it's the first film adaptation of a Pynchon novel. Boris Kachka dug deep into the enigma of Thomas Pynchon in his New York magazine profile, " On The Thomas Pynchon Trail". He played a little game with Brent this week that we call "Thomas Pynchon: True or False". Think you know Pynchon? Try the quiz below.