Pynchon-Tinasky

[jbor]

I'm reminded of his response to the _Soho Weekly News_ back in the late 60s
or early 70s, when it ran an article by John Calvin Batchelor claiming that
Pynchon was Salinger. "Not bad, keep trying" was what Pynchon wrote back in
reply.

And, there is also the letter about the derivation of the name "Genghis
Cohen":

http://www.pynchonfiles.com/cohn.htm

I tend to agree with the sentiments in this 1998 _Salon_ article about the
stream of over-zealous (or just jealous?) stalkers who have been trying to
"hunt and truss" Pynchon since the mid-60s:

http://www.salon.com/media/1998/09/22media.html

best

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>From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Pynchon-Tinasky
>Date: Mon, Apr 2, 2001, 12:26 AM
>

> Pynchon has seldom spoken about his own work and I thought it remarkable
> that he spoke about the Wanda-case in 1997, publicly denying that he had
> written the letters. After this I had no doubts that he was *not* Wanda, but
> even before I did not believe that he had written them after I had read the
> letters that were available online. Compared to his others essays or the
> "Slow Learner"-intro made clear to me that he was not Wanda but the one who
> had written them was pretty much trying to raise the impression that he
> was - for obvious reasons (to get attention) and this (successful) strategy
> is indeed questionable.