Girls, girls, girls...

[Dave Monroe]

--- Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a few months old, but...

[...]

>
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1956983,00.html

"In July the wires were humming. Browsing
Pynchonomanes had been alerted to a listing on
Amazon.com, a 270-word blurb for a brand new book by
the cult writer who is so determinedly elusive that he
makes JD Salinger look vulgarly available. Not only
did the blurb disclose themes and events in Against
the Day, it appeared actually to have been written by
Thomas Pynchon himself. A day later, Amazon had pulled
the text, but the move came too late - a Pynchonist
had saved the text and reposted it on to Amazon's
customer discussion board. It is still there."

Hey, I think that was me, though I can't tell that the
post is still there (though my posting of the initial
Penguin catalog excerpt is), so ...


 
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