Pynchon's reclusiveness: Life Magazine article?

[Victoria Harding]

Hmmm . . . here
http://web.archive.org/web/20011006141820/user.fundy.net/leemale/spielde
x.html
we find

"And Farina himself (in a 1963 article "The Monterey Fair," collected in
A Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone) also described Pynchon as an
observer, who skulked on the periphery of the action in dark glasses
while evading reporters from Life magazine who were already trying to
get a story on the elusive author of V."

But this site
http://www.oldlifemagazines.com/
has a table of contents search for Life Magazines, and Pynchon brings up
nothing there.  

I'll have to think on it:  at that time I was a huge Pynchon fan (only
V. and The Crying had been published, plus some stories, notably
"Entropy" which I thought magnificent and, on rereading a few years ago
when the group was reading Slow Learner, radically revised my opinion
of) and remember thinking it was a bit cheesy, not to mention
contradictory, for him to be participating so blatantly in the
propagation of his elusive reputation.  

At several points I read, or at least looked over, lots of magazines as
part of my job, so have to work on recovering my memory better, which so
far says:  black and white pix, large format slick magazine, not my
subscription.  Before postal rates went up, several magazines, including
Esquire, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post, were large format. Life
seemed to have a lot of author photo stories, so that may be why I
thought it was there, like the very similar, but really not, Salinger
story.  Anyway, sorry for the inconclusiveness of all this --  Victoria





-----Original Message-----
From: Otto [mailto:ottosell at yahoo.de] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:05 AM
To: Pynchon Liste
Cc: Victoria Harding
Subject: Re: Pynchon's reclusiveness: Life Magazine article?


Of course there's still much of this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011006140222/user.fundy.net/leemale/photode
x.htm

Otto

Dave Monroe schrieb:

>I think this'd be news to ALL of us here ...
>
>--- Victoria Harding <vgiannini at si.rr.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Dear Pynchonians,
>>
>>Otto's message about Pynchon's appearance on The
>>Simpsons and his pixyish way of being a recluse
>>reminds me to ask the assembled aficionados here
>>about a Life Magazine feature I think I remember
>>from the 60s or even late 50s? maybe not so early,
>>with Pynchon's reclusiveness/elusiveness turned
>>into a photo-tease in which he participated, views
>>of him from the back, in silhouette, blurred as he
>>crossed the image, and in other indiscernible ways,
>>with a few childhood pix mixed in.  
>>
>>Is this a real memory? ...
>>    
>>

	

	
		
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