Library of America

[David Kipen]

Would be interesting to know how Bellow, Roth and Welty's publisher(s) decided it was worth their while to share the market with new, competing editions. Would Penguin, Holt, Little Brown, Viking, Lippincott (HarperCollins now), etc., all feel the same way about TRP?


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David Kipen
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 10:20 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org; umberto rossi
Subject: RE: Re: Library of America

Did Saul Bellow or Philip Roth need L of A. canonization?

It could only help TRP being 'taken seriously' as a writer NOT just for Academics to write about, but to read.....[which I do hear and read]

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> From: umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
> Subject: RE: Re: Library of America
> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:41 AM
> On 4 Sep 2009 at 9:35, David Kipen
> wrote:
>
> > Dick is the bestselling volume in Library of America
> history, so they say.
> > How long before it's Tom's turn?
>
> Well, those are two different stories... Dick was not such
> a prestigious
> writer (no wonder that one of his novel's called
> Confessions of a Crap
> Artist), and he needed that act of canonization (which was
>
> masterminded, they say, by his literary heir Mr J. Lethem).
> Does
> Pynchon really need the LoA to boost his reputation?
> _____________
> umberto rossi
>
>