"Finally available: _The Letters of Wanda Tinasky_"

[Musikar,Henry]

Are you sure that it was not an April Fools Day joke?
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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Cc: Brian Stonehill Media Studies Pomona College
Subject: "Finally available: _The Letters of Wanda Tinasky_"
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 1996 10:16AM

Greetings, friends,

I have received in the mail, from an anonymous co-conspirator postmarking in
Normal, Illinois, a flier that announces:

>Finally available: _The Letters of Wanda Tinasky_
>
>Edited by  T R Factor
>Foreword by Steven Moore.  Introduction by Bruce Anderson
>Illustrations by Fred Sternkopf

There's the familiar Sternkopf woodcut of a soft-hatted longhair seen from
behind, pushing a shopping cart with Pynchon novels in it and a folded copy of
the _Anderson Valley Advertizer_ in his/her pocket, heading toward a trailer
park under a high-arched steel highway bridge.

a blurb from the _Review of Contemporary Fiction_ commends the book as a source
of years' worth of busyness to "Pynchon scholars."

>Available only via mail order: send a check or money order for >$25.00 (which
includes postage and handling) to:
>
>Vers Libres Press
>P.O. Box 2911
>Portland, OR 97208-2911

Caveat emptor: I've only just sent off my check & cannot as yet vouch for the
results...

Thanks go, I'd guess, to Steven Moore for the notice (Normal, IL?  Is there a
more Pynchonesquely paradoxical and punning town name in the country?), and
assuredly to Penny Padgett for the prompt.  Let's sell out the first edition or
two.

Cheers,  Brian