Pynchon-Tinasky

[rosenlake at mac.com]

jbor wrote:
> I didn't really think the style (self-indulgent, sarcastic), content (petty,
> local issues; nasty attacks on contemporary writers) or context (why *would*
> he write letters to the editor of a puny regional newspaper like the AVA
> anyway, when any of his expressed opinions on wider political/literary
> subjects would be automatically snapped up by the one of the major dailies?)
> were much like Pynchon at all.

Where else could he (to argue 'tis He at all) vent in such manner? Why
shouldn't he have given voice to what he otherwise edits out of his
work, i.e., the personal?

The AVA may be small, but it is known as one of the best and most lively
local newspapers in the country. And it prints pretty much everything
people send it.

--
Eric R