Pynchon in '68

[Edward Heinemann]

> >
> It was refusing to pay the % of Federal income tax calculated to be
> channeled to the Viet Nam war effort. Folksinger Joan Baez's husband (forget
> his name) actually went to jail for some time over this issue. Her sister
> Mimi was married to Richard Farina. Anyone with a mind in the US at that
> time was outraged and obsessed by that war. 
> 
>  Ed Folger

Joan Baez's husband was David Harris, who served 2 1/2 years in Federal
prison, although I believe it was for resisting the draft. Harris went
on to be a rather prominent writer at Rolling Stone, and then at the
New York Times Magazine - of which Kirkpatrick Sale, Pynchon's Cornell
buddy, was the editor. Oh, how the circles tighten! Harris also wrote
a retrospective book on his experiences in the 60's and 70's; I haven't
read it, but it might be interesting to read along with Vineland. Harris
is now finishing up a non-fiction book on the timber wars in northern
California, which provides another point of contact with V3...

Ed Heinemann