Wanda Tinansky Country

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 09:29, Paul Mackin wrote:
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> http://nytimes.com/2003/01/08/dining/08ANDE.html?8idg
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I guess for non Times accessors I should have quoted the relevant parts.



 Sometimes The Advertiser goes off the deep end, but always entertainingly.

 For months, Mr. Anderson promoted the idea that a certain Wanda Tinasky,

 who wrote regular letters to the paper, was in reality the reclusive

 novelist Thomas Pynchon, and that Mr. Pynchon was living in hiding somewhere

 in the region.

"In fact," the editor said, "Tinasky was nothing but an erudite old
hippie who later murdered his wife and killed himself. I was wrong — at
book length."