Vineland Release

[Nigel E. Richardson]

> For those of you who remember--did Vineland just appear on the shelves 
> one day without too much pre-pub excitement or marketing or like was it  
> announced way before it came out, title and all, story-line , etc.?  Just 
> wondering whether Pynchon will try to keep eveything mum before he 
> releases the next   I also wonder with communications the way they are 
> now, couldn't one say we'll get news much earlier than say GR or even 
> Vineland.
> 
> Richard Romeo

In the UK, I heard about Vineland less than a week before it
appeared, but I wasn't reading any academic or publishing
stuff back then, so it might have been anounced. It was weird 
to just be idly looking around Waterstone's and seeing a huge 
display of the book. I even saw a pretty darkhaired girl in a 
Vineland T-shirt on the London underground a few evenings later 
which got an immediate "wha?" reaction from me...

Reviews didn't start to appear until a week or more after I'd
bought the book, which was pretty unusual - meant I got to
read it without any critics preconceptions in my head.

There was a story about how the review of Vineland was 
concelled on a certain UK television arts show because 
they couldn't find anyone who didn't like it.... 

Nigel
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