Consider yourself Pierce Inverarity: Thomas Pynchon’s late real estate tycoon who would jump on this juicy opportunity to own prime digs. According to the LA Times (and trumpeted our way by the official Tumblr for Writers’ Houses), “A Manhattan Beach duplex said to be the former home of author Thomas Pynchon is accepting back-up offers.” Can you imagine the kinds of postmodern nerd porn fantasies you could realize in that pad?