pynchon locally

[Joe Allonby]

Of course, located in Brookline Village it has a large Holocaust Studies
Dept.

On 8/16/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, the B-Smith is great, I always go in to pillage their remainder
> piles of anything interesting.  Not much beats the Harvard Bookstore
> basement though.
>
> On 8/16/06, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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:
> > >
> > > 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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