more slow learner intro

[Orlowsky at aol.com]

In a message dated Fri, 3 Aug 2001  2:34:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kevin at limits.org writes:

> I also get the impression that _SL_ was published somewhat
> begrudgingly.  Maybe he needed the money.  At any rate, he seems to have
> made the best of it.


Here's a snippet from a March 11, 1984 article in the Washington Post:

The reason Pynchon is allowing these early stories to be published, after years of holding them back, was explained similarly by both Melanie Jackson and 
Corlies Smith, the author's editor at Viking, who has himself recently moved to Ticknor & Fields. Says Jackson, "He was irritated by the unauthorized distribution of these stories (in pamphlet form). They've been featured prominently in some New York bookstores and he wasn't receiving any royalties from them."