New York Observer (6/2/97)

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Thanks to davemarc for quoting these excerpts.  I hope all of youens who went to those
 stoopid shows now realize how you were being led around by the noses (the red or 
black rubber ones) by corporate graduates of Dr. Fish's School of Devious Social Research.
I am glad in retrospect that I smelled a rat the first time somebody mentioned the 
*dress-up* competition.  But it was the puppet show that really sent the *shivers* down 
me spine.

john m
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davemarc informs:

<snip>
 Henry Holt's publicity squad, led by a woman with
the very Pynchonesque name of Lottchen Shivers,

<snip>

>As the publication date approached, the publicists at Holt decided they
>wanted to create a Pynchon-across America party, through a series of wacky
>readings, puppet shows and costume parties. 

<snip>
>
>With backing from Holt, venues such as KGB, a literary bar in the East
>Village, sponsored a Pynchon imitation contest, while the Shaman Drum
>Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Mich., held a party and a raffle for a framed
>first-edition cover.  The Booksmith on Haight Street in San Francisco threw
>an open mike night, with Pynchon fans dressed like characters from his
>novels....