PW David Hajdu Joan & Bob & Richard & Mimi

[Phil Wise]

Has this link been posted before?  Hajdu's just published a book about Dylan, Baez, and the Farinas.  Sounds like P's quoted in it...

 http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20010611_95967.asp



Relevant bit:

Hajdu conducted hundreds of interviews for each of his books, but his favorite source is someone he's never met. The reclusive Thomas Pynchon, who was a close friend of Fariña's, replied (by fax) to an extensive list of questions and permitted Hajdu to quote from his correspondence. "This is the guy who enjoined the Morgan Library from making his letters available to scholars until after his death!" exclaims the author, who describes their epistolary exchanges as "one of the most exhilarating research experiences of my life." By contrast, although he dutifully pursued Dylan, he never really expected the elusive musician to see him. Fortunately, Hajdu got access to the unpublished transcripts of interviews Dylan gave the late Robert Shelton for his 1986 biography, No Direction Home. "Bob talked at length and freely about this period of his life, but because Shelton could never decide if he was a journalist or a publicist, he didn't use the most incendiary and illuminating material, so most of the quotes from Dylan have never appeared anywhere else."

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