National Book Award 1973

[Mark Kohut]

I think the Capote reference may have been a two-pronged---Iceland Spar!--
kind of joke from Prof Corey:

the jokes play on Capote's famous Black & White "masked" ball, I think---1) Corey is
Pynchon, masked of course   2) Such a who's in, who's out NY thing:
(and famous in NY for years, as wikipedia says..

The Award dinner may have been at the Plaza Hotel--site of the B & W ball---the year in question. I am trying to confirm that.

MK

wikipedia:
 Black and White Ball
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On November 28, 1966, in honor of The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, Capote hosted a legendary masked ball, called the Black and White Ball, in the Grand Ballroom of New York City's Plaza Hotel. It was considered the social event of not only that season but of many to follow. The New York Times and other publications gave it considerable coverage, and Deborah Davis wrote an entire book about the event, Party of the Century (2006), excerpted by The Independent.[15] Different accounts of the evening were collected by George Plimpton in his book Truman Capote.[16]

Capote dangled the prized invitations for months, snubbing early supporters like Carson McCullers as he determined who was "in" and who was "out". In choosing his guest of honor, Capote eschewed glamorous "swans" like Babe Paley and Fiat heiress Marella Agnelli in favor of Katharine Graham. Actress Candice Bergen was bored at the ball. Capote's elevator man danced the night away with a woman who didn't know his pedigree. Norman Mailer sounded off about Vietnam, and Frank Sinatra danced with his young wife, Mia Farrow.







--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: National Book Award 1973
> To: "Kai Frederik Lorentzen" <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 3:47 PM
> this is a part of journey into the mind of P.
> the reference could be anything, but I haven't a clue,
> really
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> > Don't think this has been posted yet:
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NBPpM--pY
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> > Was a P-list-member there back then?
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> > And can anyone explain the Truman Capote ref?
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> > kfl
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