A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon?

[Richard Romeo]

re: gaddis list

it appears there will be 3 unpublished gaddis stories in the next issue of the Missouri review (apparently there are 35 in his papers at Washington University)

A brief preview of the stories published in The Missouri Review is as follows:

"Jake's Dog" incorporates a seemingly demonic dog as found in Faust and later
in TR. It is somewhat Kafka-esque or Poe-esque. At the most reductive level,
it is a darkly humorous horror story.

Likewise, "The Rehearsal" is also a dark comedy and seemingly has hints of
Beckett. It addresses issues of artistic creation, audience, and the importance
(or lack thereof) of authorial intention, which of course reappears in Gaddis'
work. The plot revolves around the never-ending rehearsal of a play, which the
producer/author finally declares ‘But the whole thing’s completely
unoriginal.
It’s all been done before…’”

The final story, I think, is the strongest. It is entitled "A Father Arrested"
and relates the tale of a father during the Costa Rican Civil War of 1948 who
lost both of his sons in the Revolution and then was arrested as a communist
leader. The story apparently draws on Gaddis’ two weeks with the Army of
Figueres; it includes details of the insurrection and the circumstances of
Costa Rica at the time.

[Richard Romeo] sounds like fun
rich