For 10 points, name this author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow.
Dennis Flange meets a midget girl in a dump in this author's "Low-Lands." Callisto warms a bird with body heat only for it to die during a chaotic party held by Meatball Mulligan, in his story "Entropy" from the collection Slow Learner. He wrote about Grigori, a giant intelligent octopus, and of the Whole Sick Crew and Herbert Stencil's search for the title entity. He wrote about Oedipa Maas's search for the meaning of Trystero, while his most famous work includes characters like Roger Mexico and Tyrone Slothrop. For 10 points, name this author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow.
Dennis Flange meets a midget girl in a dump in this author's "Low-Lands."
Thomas {Pynchon}