Playboy Japan interview

[pynchonoid]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Perhaps jbor would do better to let Professor Krafft
> speak for himself in this matter.
> 
> At the time this all came up the first time, as I
> recall it, somebody, not Prof. Krafft, from
> Pynchon-l
> did call Melanie Jackson's office, but as it was
> related to me, did not reach her, and instead
> reached
> somebody who didn't know what he was talking about. 
> That's the "old news" not the embellished version
> that
> jbor's been selling.  
> 
> The important point is that neither Pynchon nor his
> agent have ever made any public statement about the
> Playboy Japan interview, which continues to exist as
> published, unchallenged by the man it concerns. If
> such a public statement exists, I'd love to see it,
> certainly it should be easy enough to produce,
> Pynchon
> has written letters to the editor to defend himself
> in
> the past, but in these several years, despite
> consistently making such a claim. 
> 
> If Professor Krafft confirms this report, I'll
> believe
> it, but coming from jbor second-hand it carries
> little
> credibility.  Look how wrong he was on the Book
> Description, after all.
> 
> 




> --- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> 
> > On 27/07/2006:
> > 
> > > http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/playboy.htm
> > >
> > > would this be the complete text of the playboy
> > japan bit?
> > 
> > According to John Krafft, editor of Pynchon Notes,
> > when one of the NY 
> > regulars from this list rang Melanie Jackson
> > (Pynchon's wife and agent) 
> > to ask about this, she flatly denied that Pynchon
> > had given the 
> > interview. The denial she gave him was hushed up
> > here for upwards of a 
> > year because that wasn't the answer the person who
> > made the call wanted 
> > to hear. It's old news now.
> > 
> >
>
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0411&msg=95142&sort=date
> > 
> > best
> > 


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