Pynchon and the NBA

[Ya Sam]

Not a contender for NBA? Big deal, there is always Pulitzer, IMPAC, NBCC 
Awards, and... the Nobel.


>From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Pynchon and the NBA
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:57:36 +0200
>
>The press has been singling out Cormac McCarthy's and Pynchon's absence 
>from the list of this year's NBA finalists, and Los Angeles Times even 
>quoted one of the judges, Marianne Wiggins, for saying this about AtD: "It 
>was patently obvious it wasn't a contender."
>
>But is Pynchon's absence from the list really all that strange? The 
>official rules stipulate that "Judges must receive books, bound galleys, or 
>bound manuscripts no later than August 15, 2006", and based on what we've 
>heard elsewhere, Penguin Press didn't start sending out galleys until last 
>week. So is it patently obvious that AtD wasn't a contender because the 
>judges hated it, or is it patently obvious that it wasn't a contender 
>because they never received a coveted personalized galley?
>
>So no NBA for Pynchon this year - and perhaps no NBA for him next year as 
>well: Another rule states that: "Any United States publisher may enter 
>books with scheduled publication dates between December 1, 2005 and 
>November 30, 2006". If these dates also hold true for next year, then 
>'Against the Day' doesn't fall into the December 1, 2006-November 30, 
>2007-bracket. So one thing is that the NBA has probably never forgiven 
>Pynchon for his Irwin Corey-stunt back in the 70s, another thing is that it 
>seems physically impossible for AtD to be a contender.
>
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