Publisher's Weekly

[Sojourner]

At 08:00 AM 8/14/97 -0800, Doug Millison wrote:
>Reading the Don DeLillo interview in this week's Publisher's Weekly felt
>strange -- lots of emphasis about how "reclusive" he is, publicity shy,
>guarding his private life from public view, comparisons (the journalist's,
>not DeLillo's) with Pynchon and Salinger in that regard, yet, there he is,
>being interviewed for marketing and publicity purposes.  It made me think
>how glad I am that Pynchon has chosen to stay out of that, and it's made me
>ponder why that feels important -- it's the idea, as many others have
>expressed I know, that he refrains from making himself the object of
>celebrity, keeping the focus on his art, forcibly perhaps keeping the focus
>on his essential mystery as a person and individual. It's wonderful that an
>artist of his stature and popularity can thus stay out of the public maw.
>

Possibly you feel that way because deep down inside the question we
all ask is "Why does everybody else WANT so much publicity?".

If it were a question of publicity to make more money, sure I'd understand.
But after that, why would you want such absurdity?  Stephen King isn't
a monstrous murderer, so why do you want to know about HIM?