Pynchon mentions

[Doug Millison]

FYI, I found these quotes by using the new Google news search engine, at
news.google.com.  Just type in Pynchon and see what comes up.  Pynchon's
name seems to be in the news almost every day.
-Doug



[...]   "You may already know what a blow to the ego it can be to have read
over anything you wrote 20 years ago, even cancelled checks," the American
novelist Thomas Pynchon wrote in his gleefully self-lacerating introduction
to Slow Learner, a collection of his early work. "My first reaction,
re-reading these stories, was 'Oh my God,' accompanied by physical symptoms
we shouldn't dwell upon," he confessed. [...]

quoted in:
Writer's embarrassment is a scholar's dream
Though 'confused' and 'overblown,'
Mordecai Richler's first book speaks volumes
about the author's development as a writer
By STEPHEN SMITH
Special to The Globe and Mail

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021005/RVWRIT/Art
s/thearts/thearts_temp/2/2/47/


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"On October 26 President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act, an acronym for a
law so ludicrously named that it sounds like Thomas Pynchon parodying
George Orwell: the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act."


Reason Online
October 2002
Freedom for Safety
An old trade -- and a useless one
By Nick Gillespie
http://reason.com/0210/fe.ng.freedom.shtml



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"It's ''The Bad News Bears'' as coscripted by Thomas Pynchon and Joseph
Campbell. "

from:
Review: 'Summerland' swings at greatness
By Troy Patterson
(Entertainment Weekly)
Monday, September 30, 2002 Posted: 3:29 PM EDT (1929 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/30/ew.review.book.summerland/


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"The writer for whom the printed word is paramount is, ipso facto, an
untelevisable personality, and it's instructive to recall how many of
America's critically esteemed older novelists have chosen, in a country
where publicity is otherwise sought like the Grail, to guard their privacy.
Salinger, Roth, Don DeLillo, William Gaddis, Anne Tyler, Thomas Pynchon and
Denis Johnson all give few or no interviews, do little if any teaching or
touring, and in some cases decline even to be photographed. For a long
time, I took a hard line on letting my work speak for itself. Not that I
was exactly bombarded with invitations; but I refused to review for the
Times, to write about writing, to go to parties. To speak
extra-novelistically in an age of personalities seemed to me a betrayal; it
implied a lack of faith in fiction's adequacy as communication and
self-expression and so helped, I believed, to accelerate the public flight
from the imagined to the literal. Silence, however, is a useful statement
only if someone, somewhere, expects your voice to be loud. Silence in the
1990s seemed only to guarantee that I would be alone. And eventually it
dawned on me that the despair I felt about the novel was less the result of
my obsolescence than of my isolation. "

from:
Voices in the wilderness
by Jonathan Franzen
Saturday September 28, 2002
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,800403,00.html

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"Dr. Lawrence Wallack of Portland, Ore., is a member of the Institute of
Medicine's committee studying health insurance matters. He invoked the
words of novelist Thomas Pynchon who wrote in Gravity's Rainbow"that 'if
they can get you asking the wrong questions, then they don't have to worry
about the answers.'


from:
Conferees warn single-payer health debate to be divisive
Bangor Daily News
September 24, 2002

http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=73906&byline=MichaelO'D.%
20Moore&cname=Statewide&section=Elsewhere&tt=8AM




  	  



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