If you could convene a dream panel of famous Pynchomanes...

[rich]

there was such a gathering back when M&D was published in NYC that featured
Moody, stephen wright, mendelson, and francine prose

david--if this is being put together under the auspices of a nonprofit,
please let me know. I've helped John Krafft get funding for some of the
Pynchon conferences thru my place of business

rich


On 9/22/06, David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...to talk about the work in general and/or *Against the Day* in
> particular, who would be on it? I just suggested such an evening to the
> programmer of a public lecture series on the West Coast, and got a tentative
> offer to moderate the thing some night next spring. So, if you were putting
> together a TRP tribute album, who would you call? Some modicum of fame might
> help, since they *are* hoping to sell a ducat or two. Much though I'd walk
> 10 miles barefoot on a freezing morning just to stand in John Krafft's shit
> (to paraphrase Richard Brautigan), the general public may feel differently.)
> So who's on your all-star team?
>
> David Foster Wallace?
> Mark Danielewski?
> Richard Branson?
> Matt Groening?
> John Larroquette?
> T.C. Boyle?
> Colson Whitehead?
> Julian Barnes?
> Rick Moody?
> Emily Barton?
> Edward Mendelson?
>
>  Or do we want a panel composed exclusively of Pynchon blurbees down the
> years, from Tom Robbins to Matt Ruff and beyond? By all means, go to town on
> this one. You are, as much as anybody, the target audience...
>
> All finest,
> David
>
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