Washington Post Bookworld online, NYT Book Review ad

[davemarc]

Websurfers can find the Washington Post review at
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-04/27/066L-042797-idx.ht

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If for some reason that doesn't work, try http://www.washingtonpost.com and
search for Pynchon.

In the same issue there's a Science Fiction and Fantasy column by P-lister
KENNETH HOUGHTON that includes these remarks regarding the collection
Interzone:  "Perhaps the most cheering element of this book is that its
contributors pay little attention to the conceit of science fiction as a
separate entity. This is evident from the volume's two homages, David
Langford's tribute to Jorge Luis Borges with "The Net of Babel" and Paul di
Filippo's burlesque of Thomas Pynchon, "World Wars III." The writers who
contribute to Interzone have no illusion that their work will be compared
only to those toiling in sf, and this book stands as a noteworthy
testimonial to the abilities of some of the genre's more interesting
imaginations."

(I hope you (and the Post) don't mind my posting that quote, KENNETH....)

To my surprise, there's no NYT Book Review of M&D, though there is
(finally) one on Rick Moody's Purple America (it's positive).  There is,
however, an M&D ad in the centerfold, sandwiched between reviews of Jeffery
M. Paige's "Coffee and Power, Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in
Central America" and Charles Hamm's "Irving Berlin, Songs from the Melting
Post:  The Formative Years, 1907-1914."  The ad sez:  

Mason 
     &
Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

ON SALE APRIL 30TH

HENRY HOLT

Blown up in the background is the 

Mason
      &
Dixon

cover design, sideways, so that Mason is on the right and Dixon is on the
left.

The size of the graphic is exactly that of a standard-issue (record) album
cover.  Anyone else remember those?

Nostalgically,

davemarc