pynchon locally

[Charles Albert]

It's been a landmark for more than 30 years......It was on the route from my
orthodontist
to my grandmother's house...I could never pass it by......


love,
cfa

On 8/16/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Actually, I've found it to be a pretty good small bookstore. I shop there
> from time to time.
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> 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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