Pynchon & journalists

[jbor]

Thanks for this actual information about what's in the book, Otto. And you
were quite correct: he's not really "talking to journalists" either. He
faxed a couple-three replies to *one* biographer. There's certainly a world
of difference there!

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>From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
>

> I asked my friend Byron about the book, and he wrote to me:
>
> "What I read about Pynchon, or quoted from Pynchon, was wonderful, very
> candid.  In one section he was upset with the removal of one section of
> "Been Down So Long..." -- a section where Farina changes the titles of
> famous books so that they have the word "cunt."  "Catcher in the Cunt,"
> "Winnie the Cunt," etc.  Publisher said it had no redeeming value, the cunt
> section, while Pynchon said that it was funny, and that funny is redeeming
> enough.  Yeah, that's my kind of Pynchon...  Though I can't agree with him
> that RF's novel is a work of genius.
> When I went through the index of Hadju's book, I found about 25 - 30 pages
> of TP material."
>
> I wonder when/if it will be available here.
>
> Otto
>
>>
>> In Hajdu's book Pynchon talks about himself as a friend of Farina's,
>> compares himself to Farina in some ways, and talks about himself as a
>> part of that same Greenwich Village scene.
>>
>> And we don't know what else P told Hajdu.  My point about putting an
>> end to the myth that P doesn't talk to journalists, which has been
>> repeated many times in this forum, stands.
>>
>> Otto:
>>
>> Doug:
>> >
>> >  This should put an end to the repetition of the received wisdom that
>> >  Pynchon doesn't talk to journalists, too.
>>
>> But he's not talking about himself or about his fiction, is he?
>> --
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