Barthelme and an Intro by TRP?

[Mark Kohut]

Yes.
  http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/index.html

Richard <rdonaldson at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
           
  In a search for recent releases, or posthumous publications of Donald Barthelme, I found a collection titled, "The Teachings of Don B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme." It appears to have been published in January by Counterpoint. Along with an "About the Author" description of Barthelme and his work is an "About the Author" description of TRP and his work. (It is a stock description I have seen elsewhere.) There is no other reference to TRP. I can but assume he wrote an introduction.
   
  Does anyone know anything about this book? Particularly any contributions TRP made to it.
   
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Kohut 
  To: pynchon -l 
  Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:04 AM
  Subject: Fwd: letter re Sunday's party
  

  To All:
   
  I wrote the letter to Freebird Books quoted in Galley Cat and sent around by Dave
  Monroe. 
   
  "Unnamed", Mr. Hogan writes, but I signed it and sent it via email that bears my name. About as close to face-to-face as I could get, especially since I am in Tennessee at the moment (and not a coupla-three trains from the bookstore.)
   
  I felt that I should write. Reading Pynchon has to matter in one's perceptions and responses
  to things in life, I say, or else he is little better than complex crosswords---challenging and fun, but NOT ABOUT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. I won't accept that. "The world is all that is
  the case" ---and it matters what we say and do.
   
  They, of course, also did not have the right to quote from that letter without my permission.
  One owns one's words in letters---see Salinger vs. Hamilton.
   
  Mark
   
  

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