wanda

Wed May 22 13:21:48 CDT 1996

     Edited by <T.R.> Factor?  Hmmm.

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Author:  csweet at gte.net at Internet
Date:    5/22/96 12:40 PM

http://muhaxp.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/announce.htm

I found this on the net while doing a search on 'wanda tinasky' 
at hotwired's 'www.hotbot.com' site. I didn't remember it
being posted here so here it is.

chris

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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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