Slate-d

[Matthew Ryan]

>From the article's comments section:

  *Subject:* *Pynchons legions of fans?* *From:* *danielmartinx* *Date:* *Jul
19 2006 4:16PM *
  *"Last month, lit-bloggers and news-writers reported that Penguin Press
would issue the author's sixth novel in December. This whetted the palates
of those hard-core fans who have spent the years since 1997's Mason & Dixon
speculating that Pynchon was at work on a doozy ..."

All three of those fans? Maybe four?

Pynchon's first books were interesting and pleased the university crowd
enough to be taught repeatedly over the decades, but the university crowd
has turned its back on him. As well they should. His "complexity" is just
bad writing -- unclear, unrevised, pointless. Please don't burden us with
his celebrity, O Slate. Please free us from being tied to a has-been who
virtually never-was.*


On 7/20/06, richard baillie <richbaillie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> maybe so but if TRP really wanted to safeguard his rep he would have
> quit writing in 1974
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:37:49 -0500, "Tim Strzechowski"
> <dedalus204 at comcast.net> said:
> > Conspiracy theory abounds.
> >
> > I'm not convinced that this whole Book Description fiasco is a flat-out
> > "hoax" just yet.  We'll just have to wait and see what text is
> officially
> > posted on Amazon, so I'm reserving judgment until then.  Either way, I
> > don't
> > find the quickly removed Book Description all that "damaging" to P's
> > reputation.  I, too, was reminded of the M&D book flap blurb.  As to how
> > stylish and literary it is, well ... as someone here said, "It's a
> > blurb."
> > Whataya expect ...
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Does it occur to anyone else that someone out there really has it in
> for
> > > TRP, and is intent on doing as much damage to his reputation as
> possible
> > > with all this crap?
> > >
> >
> --
> richard baillie
> richbaillie at fastmail.fm
>
> --
> http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and
>                          love email again
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20060720/6e421d43/attachment.html>