Post v Times (was Re: Watts article

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor:
>and that the
> 'NYT' had an international edition until 1967. It
> has certainly had wide
> national distribution in the U.S. all along.

Wide, perhaps, but not at all deep.  Yes you could buy
a copy of the NY Times in this hotel and that book
store, even outside the US -- but US national
distribution to the home and on every newsstand (where
Saturday Evening Post could be found) didn't come
until a very long time after Pynchon's essay was
published.  Being able to buy a current copy of the
Times was the difference between being in the sticks
and being in a real town.
 
> 
>  The 'Post' remained quite
> mainstream and
> conservative, as John K. Young correctly describes
> in his article.

Which makes Pynchon that much bolder to offer "The
Secret Integration" with its story of racial
integration in the suburbs.

 

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