Pynchon & Barthelme

[jbor at bigpond.com]

See also Pynchon's Intro to The Teachings of Don B. (Vintage, 1992).


> From: "Steven Moore" <mooresteven at att.net>
> Date: 26 January 2009 10:43:22 PM
> To: <gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: eGad: Gaddis/Barthelme/Pynchon
> Reply-To: gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com
>
> Tracy Daughterty's new book Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald  
> Barthelme, due out soon, is worth checking out. There are a few  
> anecdotes about Gaddis's relationship to Bartheleme, and especially  
> about Bartheleme's friendship with Pynchon. (Sez here Pynchon  
> finished writing Gravity's Rainbow while living downstairs from B.  
> in Greenwich Village in the early 70s.) There are several quotations/ 
> paraphrases from Pynchon's letters to B. from Special Collections,  
> University of Houston. Plus it's a wonderful biography of one of the  
> most innovative postmodernists of our time.