letter re Sunday's party

[Mark Kohut]

Mr, Kipen,
   
  I would be there in a heartbeat were I at home in Jersey City. I think I could have gathered a
  few foax. I will send your counterparty suggestion to some sympathetic friends of mine, if it is Ok with you? But, it is probably too late for anyone. 
   
  If you read my letter, I did wish the party the best and will buy a book from them for someone. I want that party, any party, to create more readers.
   
  Mark

David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com> wrote:
  I know it's late, but does anybody want to convene an impromptu
counterparty today at 3, maybe around chinatown? Otherwise, I may not
be able to avoid whichever subway takes me to freebird...

All finest,
David

On 5/3/08, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
>
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-- 
All finest,

David Kipen
Literature Director, National Reading Initiatives
Blog: www.arts.gov/bigreadblog
National Endowment for the Arts
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue #722
Washington DC, 20506
Email: kipend at arts.gov
202-682-5787


       
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