Wanda question

Steven Maas (CUTR) maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Fri Jun 6 09:16:54 CDT 1997


Christopher Kelly wrote:
> I spoke to Bruce Anderson last year, while working on a story about the
> Wanda letters, and he claims that only after reading Vineland, and
> discovering that Pynchon must have been in the area researching the
> book, did he put 2+2 together and decide it must be Pynchon. He claims
> that a number of literary scholars have confirmed that it is Pynchon.
> I'm not so sure about that.

Unless some of these "literary scholars" have achieved omniscience I think
only Pynchon could confirm that it's him. 

> letters tend to sound more like a Pynchon imitator than TRP himself.
> Moody contends that it is probably Anderson who wrote the letters--and
> in considering the whole affair, I'm quite apt to agree.

Someone on this list once speculated that former (?) P-lister Steelhead
wrote them.

	Steve Maas




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