State by State Portrait--Pynchon Turned Down Offer to Contribute

[Brock Vond]

i also thought it was a joke....



On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Sounds like a Pynchon joke, if accurate.
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> Proulx is Maine and Wyoming.
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> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> Subject: State by State Portrait--Pynchon Turned Down Offer to  
>> Contribute
>> To: "pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 4:37 PM
>> Sean Wilsey is the author of the memoir Oh the Glory of It
>> All and the
>> co-editor, with Matt Weiland, of the newly released State
>> by State: A
>> Panoramic Portrait of America, which features original
>> writing on all
>> fifty states by the U.S.'s finest novelists,
>> journalists, and
>> essayists. Rail contributor Jed Lipinski recently met with
>> Mr. Wilsey
>> to discuss his new book.
>>
>> Rail: What writers turned you down?
>>
>> Wilsey: [Laughs] J.D. Salinger. I attempted to get in touch
>> with him
>> through his son, and had the door firmly shut, but
>> politely. Franzen
>> initially said he couldn't do a state because he had
>> another book due,
>> so we asked Don DeLillo to do New York. He wrote back
>> saying that he
>> couldn't write something that didn't originate in
>> "my own dim
>> interior." Thomas Pynchon said no, but recommended we
>> talk to Annie
>> Proulx about the difference between Iowa and Minnesota,
>> weirdly
>> enough.
>>
>> http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/11/express/interview-with-sean- 
>> wilsey
>>
>> Thought Proulx wrote mostly about Wyoming?
>>
>> rich
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