pynchon locally
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 10:07:54 CDT 2006
Actually, I've found it to be a pretty good small bookstore. I shop there
from time to time.
On 8/14/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The local Brookline Booksmith mentioned the new Pynchon book in its
> weekly email, featuring our own pynchonoid and p-list in it:
>
> "Thomas Pynchon is a big tease. Ever since Mason & Dixon came out in
> 1997, devoted readers have been buzzing about what he might be working
> on next. Then last month, at long last, an online retailer who will
> not be named put up a page listing Untitled Thomas Pynchon to be
> published in December, and included a synopsys of the novel that was
> purportedly written by Pynchon himself. This set the blogosphere's
> keyboards on fire - Was it a hoax? Was it a marketing ploy? Was it the
> real thing? Was it a mistake? Then the controversial synopsys
> disappeared from the page. Apparently the synopsys was indeed written
> by Pynchon, but was not supposed to be released to the public this
> early (so, of course, it was deleted but you can still read it here
> and here and here). Now we can confirm that the new novel, Against the
> Day, will be published in December, and you can read what
> may-or-may-not-be an excerpt here."
>
> (links included follow):
>
> http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_news.html#new_novel_excerpt
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0607&msg=102706&keywords=against%20the%20day%20description
>
> http://brookline.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=159420120X
>
> I didn't expect the b-smith to be on the Pynchon wavelength...
>
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