Pynchon's interview with David Hajdu

[joeallonby]

A pretty good book that has come up several times on this list. His bio of
Billy Strayhorn is damned good too.

on 4/22/04 2:50 PM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/086547642X/ref=sib_vae_pg_7/102-4231676-54105
> 25?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=Pynchon&p=S096&twc=28&checkSum=qPx5MpJXUfelhRy0mI
> JSbf%2Bn%2BHcikp%2FTpcWWnp6WQzI%3D#reader-link>
> 
> That's the url for Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book
> page from _Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times
> of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard
> Farina_ by David Hajdu, where the author speaks of his
> interview (yep, that's the word Hajdu uses, and I
> trust him to know what he was doing) with Pynchon:
> 
> "The quotes from Thomas Pynchon are from an interview
> with Pynchon conducted by fax, as well as from letters
> from Pynchon to Mimi Fari?a."
> 
> It's a welcome correctio to the mistaken notion,
> promulgated mindlessly on Pynchon-L and elsewhere,
> that Pynchon "never" grants interviews.
> 
> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/086547642X/ref=sib_vae_pg_3/102-4231676-54105
> 25?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=Pynchon&p=S092&twc=28&checkSum=qPx5MpJXUfcZ9sj1XO
> tr9ZBz09VT5g%2FBKwaZ3Q2LQTo%3D#reader-link>
> 
> That's the page where Hajdu thanks Pynchon for the
> interview:
> "Thomas Pynchon let me in, answering all my questions.
> No words are adequate to thank him."
> 
> If for some reason the urls don't work, you can find
> and read all of the Pynchon references in Hajdu's book
> on Amazon.com.  Links to the book's 28 references to
> Pynchon begin here:
> 
> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/086547642X/102-4231676-5410525?%5Fencoding=UT
> F8&resultsPage=1&keywords=Pynchon&v=search-inside>
> 
> And if that url doesn't work, search for Hajdu's book
> and take it from there.
> 
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