M&D in the media

[Bruce Appelbaum]

     TRP's publicist is an oxymoron.  Hope she doesn't sue for deformation 
     of character.


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Subject: M&D in the media
Author:  "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com> at Internet
Date:    5/17/97 11:04 PM


Photographer-writer Luc ("Low Life") Sante reviews M&D on page 65 of the 
current issue of New York (5/19/97).  Illustrating the review is a blurry 
photograph of the back of the book, apparently taken just outside of an 
unidentified bookstore in Manhattan.  Only kidding (or trying to...).
     
On page 61 of this week's Entertainment Weekly (5/23/97), the Best-Seller 
list (taken from Publisher's Weekly) opens with a little item that runs as 
follows:
     
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Doubtin' Thomas?
     
No tours, no interviews.  No nothing!" confirmed Thomas Pynchon's publicist 
when asked about her author's promotional contributions to *Mason & Dixon*.
 No surprise.  Sometimes it's unclear whether Pynchon is more famous for
his esoteric, award-winning literature or his tenacious noninvolvement in 
hawking it.  In any case, the long-awaited, *long* novel, looking a trifle 
out of place between spring perennials Steel and Grisham, has justified its 
200,000-copy first printing with a No. 3 debut.  Wherever you are, Tom, we 
hope you're smiling.
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davemarc