Pynchon feature for new online mag?

[Carvill John]

FOlks!  Last nagging email on this one. Lots of good people signed up, but still plenty of quality p-listers yet to step forward.
Come on!
Don't make me name names!


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>>>
>>> As some of you already know, I have decided to start up my own
>>> online arts & pp culture magazine. Here's the putative website:
>>>
>>>
>>> www.oomska.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>> We've got a pretty exciting bunch of people writing for us, and of
>>> course there will be some Pynchon content, eventually. I was talking
>>> to one of our guys today and discussing 'Against the Day'. I told
>>> him I'd never managed to quite get my review of that book finished -
>>> that thing in popmatters was just meant to be a blurb for a 'best
>>> books of the year' feature that never ran. BUt I alwasy hope to
>>> return to it some day, and maybe will now that I've got my own
>>> website etc. But not right now, because I'm too busy with other
>>> things, plus I wrote 2 Pynchon reviews in the last year.
>>>
>>>
>>> But this guy, well read, etc. but never read a word of Pynchon,
>>> well, he made a suggestion that I immdiately rejected, but then
>>> reconsidered: why don't we run a feature on Pynchon, written by
>>> Pynchon List people? A sort of 'what does Pynchon mean to you in X
>>> words' kind of thing. If everybody submitted a few paragraphs (or as
>>> many as you like), focusing on whatever aspect they like - what
>>> first hooked you, what themes keep you interested, favourite
>>> passage, recommendation for first Pynchon book for new readers,
>>> etc., well, we could, between us, knock together a nice little
>>> article, n'est pas?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the sort of article you might expect to find in a 'proper'
>>> publication, 'cept all those jaspers they'd quote would be big name
>>> authors. Fair enough. But I learned more about Pynchon from this
>>> list than th enext half a dozen most useful sources combined. So
>>> whaddya say? Who's with me?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the one big advantage of this format is that nobody has to
>>> knock themselves out writing a big involved all-encompassing essay -
>>> our feature will be composed of a number of mini essays. And God
>>> knows this list has the knowledge and ability to do it.
>>>
>>>
>>> The site goes live on 22nd March 2010. Can we get a list of who'd be
>>> willing to participate as soon as possible?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>>
>>>
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