played the P-list like a violin...

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 6:26 PM, pynchonoid wrote:

> ...I think that may have been the phrase Mr Mackin
> regarding the JS intervention that led to a book that
> tried topiggyback M&D.  It's happening again, only
> this time it's Pynchon himself, if my suspicion turns
> out to be true.

Yeah, I remember. Jules could play the p-list like a violin.

Pynchon may not want to start a major undertaking so soon. Old guy  
needs his rest.

Let the Slate writer join the p-list and do it

Or maybe someone from the Onion
>
> Intriguing that the Penguin press person apparently
> denied knowing anything about that Book Description
> being posted to the book's page at Amazon -   I'm
> prepared to be proven wrong, but I believe this (the
> denial - or maybe she simply didn't know what somebody
> else in the campaign is doing) to be just part of an
> online promotional campaign designed to keep word of
> mouth buzzing, some of the younger folks at the book
> publishers are quite hip to so-called "viral"
> marketing strategies and how to stimulate online
> communities like Pynchon-l, the lit-bloggers, etc.
>
> I'd be shocked if it turns out that somebody
> penetrated Amazon.com's systems surreptitiously and
> somehow hacked that Book Description onto the Untitled
> New Novel page without authorization (as some folks,
> including some on Pynchon-l) - that would represent a
> major security failure and would be, I expect, widely
> reported in the computer business press. Anybody heard
> about it yet?
>
> Bottom line,  Pynchon's publishers, with Pynchon's
> permission if not active collusion,  are teasing his
> core readership, and that this is building up to a
> major book publishing event.  I wouldn't be surprised
> if Pynchon himself speaks publicly or makes some sort
> of appearance related to the book (maybe he'll crash a
> Prof. Irwin Corey event) - it's a career milestone I
> don't see any author being able to pass up.
>
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