Pynchon Earning Out

[Carvill John]

Thanks for that, Jim. Very interesting. Maybe you can shed some light on the marketing, or lack thereof, which attends publication of P's books. Why the hell don't they get off their asses and do something? Or is their campaign, like swine flu, viral?
I know Pynchon, via Jackson, must exert some degree of control, even aside from refusing to do publicity personally. On the other hand, he wrote that blurb for ATD, didn't he? Yeah, it was poster prematurely on amazon, withdrawn, reposted, then revised for teh dust jacked, but he did write it. So he is willing to pitch in, however sardonically. 
I just don't get why there is so little (seeming) effort made to shift books.


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