a beat connection?

[Ted Samsel]

lorelei sez:
> 
> Greetings.
> 	I don't know about a beat influence, but there certainly is a 
> connection between Pynchon and one-novel wonder Richard Farina, who i've 
> always thought of as a beat writer. Pynchon wrote the lauding intro to 
> Farina's _Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me_. (Farina died in a 
> motorcycle crash the night of the book release party. Fun fact: he was also 
> a folk singer, and was married to Mimi Baez, Joan's sister.)

Even more obscurely, Fari~a was married before, to an early Austin
foak sanger, Carolyn Hester.

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