Novel Title & Etc.

[jbor at bigpond.com]

You're right, of course. The only official word so far has been the  
press release from Tracy Locke: "There is not yet a title, and we're  
not releasing information about the subject matter at this point,"  
though Mike's source (Ann Godoff: "Chicago, 1897" setting) seems rock  
solid. Pynchon must've gone with Godoff to Penguin when she left Random  
House.

It's surprising no-one has tried contacting Melanie Jackson. It's a  
shame about that debacle here a couple of weeks back.

I wonder whether that "owner" of the pynchon-list might have some  
insider goss, now that Murthy's no longer on board. You'd think he or  
she'd at least be interested in the new book.

best

On 18/07/2006:

> Did somebody write to Amazon and ask for an explanation?
>
> Up to now I only read speculations here.
>
>> I wonder how long it had been up there for before you came across it?  
>> Not long, I'd guess. It's interesting that the Amazon folks took it  
>> down again so quickly after you noticed it first and then posted it  
>> through here. Wonder who alerted them? And why they took it down?  
>> Some drone at Amazon or Penguin jumped the gun? A sneaky marketing  
>> ploy all along? Or just the usual shabbily-clothed shenanigans?
>>>
>>> Here's what some of the other blogs are saying, by the way. News  
>>> sure travels fast:
>>>
>>> http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/untitled_thomas_pynchon/
>>>
>>> http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/ 
>>> let_the_reader_beware/
>>>
>>> http://toddius.livejournal.com/
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> On 18/07/2006:
>>>
>>>> thanks, jbor, i just was lucky to come across it because i purchase  
>>>> many used & collectible books from amazon's marketplace; i'm sure  
>>>> amazon slipped up and posted the book description earlier than  
>>>> intended (what publisher would describe a book to the general  
>>>> public before giving it a proper, or even invented or temporary  
>>>> title?  er, other than the next harry potter book coming out soon,  
>>>> i mean?)
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy Rice <no speul cec, agin>
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>>>> I guess we'll see, and I could be wrong and you and Paul could be  
>>>>>> right.
>>>>>
>>>>> And Jeremy, of course, too, to whom credit and thanks are due for
>>>>> initially alerting us to the blurb's apparition.
>>>