Woodwork revisited

[Henry M]

With all due respect to my elders, many of us were not reading the 
New Yorker in '65 and, assuming the "new" book is properly priced as 
a novelette, some of us might prefer it bound to photocopied. Whatever.

> Date:          Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:02:57 -0500 (EST)
> From:          Alan Joyce <caj3+ at pitt.edu>
> Reply-to:      Alan Joyce <caj3+ at pitt.edu>
> To:            Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject:       Woodwork revisited

> 
> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:
> 
> > The new book, which first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in 1965,
> > should be on sale by early March, the Post said.
> 
> Why are people getting excited about this?  You could have read this story
> at your local library any time in the last 37 years. Dig up the June 19,
> 1965 issue, page 32.  If I remember correctly, it's a long letter from
> Seymour at some camp.
> 
> Maybe Salinger needs a dialysis machine, or something.  In which case I
> suppose I'll buy the thing, in return for the pleasure I've derived from
> his stuff over the years.  Still seems like this event is being rather
> oddly represented.
> 
> Alan Joyce
> caj3+ at pitt.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 


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