Blurbliography
Orlowsky at aol.com
Orlowsky at aol.com
Fri Mar 17 01:36:22 CST 1995
Oh, hell, I can't resist. Here's a list of all of the separate Pynchon
blurbs I know of. Some of them are reprinted on other novels, but these are
where they originated, as far as I know. If you know of any others, let me
know.
Richard Farina, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Random House, 1966.
Hughes Rudd, My Escape From the CIA (and Other Improbable Events), Dutton,
1966.
John Speicher, Looking for Baby Paradise, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.
David Shetzline, DeFord, Random House, 1968.
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Nog, Pocket Books, 1970.
Marge Pierce, Dance the Eagles to Sleep, Fawcett, 1971.
Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS, Vintage Books, 1974.
M.F. Beal, Amazon One (from NYTBR 4/13/75 advertisement, not used on the book
itself)
Peter Matthiessen, Far Tortuga, Viking, 1975.
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Bantam, 1977.
Phyllis Gebauer, The Pagan Blessing, Viking, 1979.
Laurel Goldman, Sounding the Territory, Knopf, 1982.
Steve Erickson, Days Between Stations, Vintage, 1986.
David Attoe, Lion at the Door, Little, Brown, 1989.
Jim Dodge, Stone Junction, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Howard A. Rodman, Destiny Express, Atheneum, 1990.
Don DeLillo, Mao II, Penguin Books, 1991.
James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We've Had A Hundred Years of
Psychotherapy--and the World's Getting Worse, HarperCollins, 1992.
Jack Kelly, Mad Dog, Atheneum, 1992.
Steve Erickson, Arc d'X, Poseidon Press, 1993.
A lot of these blurbs are only on certain editions, or are abridged in later
editions. Some only appear in paperback. Check Mead and Pynchon Notes for
more info.
Bob
P.S. Richard Farina and Kirk Sale were pals of TP's at Cornell, and I think
Rudd may have been, too. Wonder how many other of these authors he knows
personally?
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