Tinasky (no "r")

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

Flavio wrote:
>
> Is there a site on the web where I can buy "The Letters of Wanda
> Tinarsky"? I already tried Amazon.com but they don't carry it.
> if I can't buy it online, is there a snail-mail address I should write
> to?
> Thanks,
> Flavio


There's a link to it from Jeff Krafft's homepage at
WWW:    http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm
under Pynchon Notes Announcements, but here's a 
reprint below:





                               PRESS RELEASE: Sunday, MAY 5, 1996
                              (Contact: T.R. Factor, Portland, OR)

                The Letters of Wanda Tinasky (edited by T.R. Factor, foreword by
                      Steven Moore) is being launched on Wednesday, May 8.

                 For more than five years in the mid- to late 80s, the northern
                  California coast was home to a writer of lively and colorful
                Letters to the Editor (nearly all of them to the Anderson Valley
                Advertiser in Boonville) who used the name Wanda Tinasky. No one
              ever discovered Wanda's identity, but Bruce Anderson, editor of the
                  AVA, came to believe that Wanda Tinasky was Thomas Pynchon.

               Coincidentally, the mid- to late 80s was when Pynchon was writing
                             Vineland, set in Northern California.

                Pynchon's agent has denied that Pynchon wrote the Wanda Tinasky
                                            letters.

               The first half of The Letters of Wanda Tinasky contains more than
                 a hundred pages of letters, with nearly 500 local and literary
               references extensively annotated. The second half includes, among
                other letters, letters by Wanda wannabes and alleged relatives.
              Other letters signed with different pseudonyms could also be by the
                 author of the Wanda Tinasky letters. Editorials, articles and
               confrontations from the AVA suggest why Wanda was attracted to the
                       politics of the editor, which parallel Pynchon's.

                 To order a copy of The Letters of Wanda Tinasky, send check or
                 money order for $25 (which includes shipping and handling) to:

                                        vers libre press
                                          PO Box 2911
                                    Portland, OR 97208-2911

                                 (allow 3-4 weeks for delivery)

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