TRP gossip from Humboldt

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Seems there was speculation on this list maybe a year and a half ago that
George Mangels--who's book _Frank's World_ was as I remember also edited
by M. Jackson and published by a press (St. Martins) not known for
publishing first novels--was TRP.  _Frank's World_ was in my opinion great
fun and very interesting but _very_ different from Pynchon's style.  (Of
course this very great difference could explain the use of a psuedonym...)
(And now that I think about it, FW too began with a very long sentence...)

	Steve Maas

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Jay Herzog wrote:

> 	Jim Dodge, who teaches a fiction workshop I'm in, says that TP is
> doing the introduction to an upcoming British edition of his novel "Stone
> Junction". He happened to mention that he shared the same literary agent
> with Pynchon and was surprised when I told him they (Melanie and Tom) were
> man and wife. He also told me that for awhile there was a rumor going
> around that he was TRP and he was constantly harrassed by foax
> creeping up behind him at book signings yelling "Hey Tom!" hoping he'd
> spring around unconsciously.