Rosenbaum on AtD?

[Carvill John]

I emailed Ron Rosenbaum a while back, commenting on something he'd written 
about Dylan, but also mentioning his M&D piece and suggesting he might do 
something similar on ATD. Think he said something about lightning not 
striking twice, I can't find his email at the moment. BUt he does say this 
on his blog:


"Indeed one of the responses I got when I started this blog was a question 
from a Pynchonian who asked me whether I intended to seek to do something 
similar with Pynchon’s forthcoming book Against the Day. The problem was 
that Pynchon—in his initial rather verbose Amazon description of his 
book—had already preempted that option by listing a vast number of subjects 
that would be covered by the book. I took it personally! The taciturn (turn 
and tacit) title too: He didn’t want me pulling the same stunt! I’m not 
being entirely serious, merely getting into the paranoid Pynchonian spirit."

http://ronrosenbaum.pajamasmedia.com/


>
>I saw Rosenbaum speak about Shakespeare and his new book last month, and
>spoke to him briefly afterwards.  I asked him whether he would return to
>Pynchon now that the Shakespeare book was done and AtD was coming out.  He
>seemed strangely underwhelmed by the prospect.  I don't remember his exact
>words, but the gist was that he would like to go back and do more with The
>Crying of Lot 49, but implied was that he did not particularly want to 
>spend
>time with any of TRP's subsequent books.
>
>
>
>His Observer column in one of the following weeks talked about having a flu
>that sapped his motivation and left him listless, so maybe I caught him in
>the throes of it.  But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for him to write
>about it, alas.
>
>
>
>   _____
>
>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On 
>Behalf
>Of Lary Wallace
>Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:56 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Rosenbaum on AtD?
>
>
>
>Don't forget what a great exegetical Pynchon-reader Ron Rosenbaum is. Keep
>an eye out for his next New York Observer column (appearing every other
>Wednesday); it may turn up something of more-than-passing Pynchonian
>interest.
>
>
>

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