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[Jules Siegel]

At 04:22 PM 06/8/97 -0800, millison at online-journalist.com (Doug Millison) wrote:
> It's hard to imagine that's what the Pynchon/Holt PR machine intended in
this case, if in fact they were the originating source for the CNN story.

It doesn't matter whether or not it originated with his press agents. It was
there general campaign to bring him to the attention of the mass media that
aroused the interest. When you advertise on national radio, you are not
exactly keeping a guy in the litary cocktail party zone, are you? Once
there's a best seller, the author become sjust another celebrity. That's
what I meant when I said he should have stayed with Epoch. It's absurd to
argue that the media should change their habits to suit the interests of a
formerly obscure but successful author, no matter how great a guy he might be.


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