Wanda Tinasky

[Olivia Warnecke]

>Wanda is Pynchon. I remember talking to a very
special (no names please)
>informant in Mary's Place, on Shattuck in
Berkeley ( a great place for a
>burger), and he showed me several (at that point
unposted) letters to the
>Anderson Valley Advertiser, together with some
early drafts of Vineland...
>
a while back, the SF Weekly (couldve been the
Guardian?)did a front page article about the
Anderson Valley Advertiser and the legend of Wanda
Tinasky. It was right after the publishing of
Vineland. Anyway, someone at the Weekly must've
been a fan of Pynchons because the person was
obsessed with knowing if it was Pynchon and if
he/she may just "see" Pynchon. The story lost its
point. The author would rather have had a sighting
of Pynchon rather than experience the writing of
Pynchon.

~Olivia