publishing insiders predict ATD "is going to do well (really, really well)"

[pynchonoid]

Thursday, Nov 09
Passionate for Pynchon

For an author who never does publicity and a book that
won't have the massive marketing campaign as other
lead titles, it goes without saying that Thomas
Pynchon's AGAINST THE DAY is going to do well (really,
really well) upon its release on November 21. I mean,
just before a long weekend - that means a lot of
diehards will be skipping out on turkey and football
to devour the nearly 1100-page tome. So for those who
aren't steeped in Pynchon-mania, what makes him so
appealing to an ever-increasing cult of fans? The AP
finds out more, talking with fans ranging from
conceptual artists, web design consultants and
"independent scholars."

"Pynchon fans tend to take his work seriously I think
because, beyond the intrinsically interesting subject
matter and intriguing stories, his books are so rich
and complex, touching on so many topics," says Pynchon
fan Doug Millison, a writer, editor and Web design
consultant based in El Cerrito, Calif. Pynchon is now
69, but time, and the Internet, have advanced in his
favor. It's been nine years since his previous novel,
MASON & DIXON, came out, and fans have fully digitized
their passion, building an online community worthy of
an author who as much as anyone brought a high-tech
sensibility to literary fiction.

Numerous Web sites and a "Pynchon News Service" have
been launched, and a team of experts is busy
assembling a Wikipedia-like page for AGAINST THE DAY
"It will, I predict, quickly become a focus of the
several hundred reader-researchers worldwide who read
Pynchon and write about his works in academic and
popular media," Millison says. "The Internet has made
it easy for Pynchon's academic critics and lay readers
to find each other and sustain an online discussion
that's continued now for over a decade." 

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/passionate_for_pynchon_47198.asp

>http://pynchonoid.org
>>"everything connects"


 
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