Holt writes letter to The Times

[Paul Mackin]

The lead "Talk of the Town" story in today's New Yorker
highlights the inexplicable threatening letter Holt's
lawyer sent The Times demanding that the negative of the famous
picure be turned over and all copies destroyed. Tongues are
wagging in the Big Apple over the lawyer's apparent ignorance
of the free speech implications, plus the obvious question: Why, if
anyone was suing, would it be Holt and not Pynchon?  Of possible
interest to us listers is a bit of nonsense (IMHO) tacked on the
end of the story and I quote, " . . . The photograph, though, is
as much the result of technological progress as it is of moral
decline: the Internet makes it possible to locate virtually
anyone. The absolute privacy that Pynchon has maintained is
itself an artifact of the past. And if there is any novelist
who can appreciate the way that  technological change has
unmoored the moral principles of another era, it is, after
all, Thomas Pynchon."

                                P.

P.S. Nobody's blaming Pynch apparently. Just Holt.