re-reading, re-listening, re-thinking...a reply

Jules Siegel jsiegel at pdc.caribe.net.mx
Wed May 7 07:50:50 CDT 1997


At 06:47 PM 05/6/97 -0700, "Tod Mahony" <mahony at halcyon.com> wrote:
>Joel wrote:
>> Where was it that I read (Jules Siegel?) Pynchon wrote Vineland to make
some money to be able to continue writing his more meaningful and
difficult(?) works?

Not me. He told me that he felt he had rushed through The Crying of Lot 49
in order to get the money. This appears in my Playboy memoir.

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