another sighting of rumo[u]r of new Pynchon book...

[jbor]

> Just riffing on jbor's remark that "it is
> quite surprising (or perhaps not) that Americans seem to be the least
> well-informed about what Pynchon's up to.

Trying to bait me, in other words. But it is surprising that all the news
about the new novel -- that it is currently being edited, what it is about
-- has come from outside America.

And just to correct the false impression subscribers might have from your
post, the status of that "Playboy Japan interview" is still highly dubious.
But I guess if it does eventually turn out that Pynchon willingly gave an
interview to a journalist from Playboy Japan (any hint of confirmation on
that front yet, by the way?), it adds further to the insinuation regarding
"the best kept secret in America" made in the French article which Erik
generously posted to the list.

best

> Thanks to Erik for finding this and posting it to the list. Apart from the
> speculation in that New Yorker cartoon last week -- inferred from P's Simpsons
> appearances rather than from actual information, I'd guess -- it is quite
> surprising (or perhaps not) that Americans seem to be the least well-informed
> about what Pynchon's up to.
> 
> best
> 
> on 5/11/04 12:54 AM, Erik T. Burns wrote:
>> 
>> "the best-kept secret in America"?
>> from Le Nouvel Observateur's culture gossip column.
>> etb 
>> 
>> 
>> Téléphone rouge
>> 225 Words
>> 04 November 2004
>> Le Nouvel Observateur
>> 145
>> 2087
>> French
>> (c) 2004 Le Nouvel Observateur
>> 
>> Téléphone rouge
>> 
>> <snip> C'est le secret le mieux gardé d'Amérique: , l'auteur culte de
>> «l'Arc-en-ciel de gravité», l'écrivain silencieux qui a toujours refusé tout
>> contact avec les journalistes, aurait entrepris la rédaction d'un nouveau
>> roman, selon Michael Naumann, directeur de « Die Zeit » et ancien
>> collaborateur de l'éditeur de Pynchon, Henry Holt: l'action se déroulerait à
>> Gottingen au début du xxe siècle, et narrerait les aventures d'une jeune
>> mathématicienne russe. <snip>
>> 
>>