On Pynchon in Public Day
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri May 13 10:01:03 CDT 2011
Celebrating writers in public (even Pynchon)
The Guardian (blog)
A chance spotting of a man reading Thomas Pynchon's V on the tube was the
catalyst for the first ever "Pynchon in Public" day on 8 May - the author's
birthday – last weekend. Inspired by the SA4QE event, when novelist Russell
Hoban's admirers
I believe I, suggested to Dystopia2009 (John Dee) via an instant twitter
response that the day be P's birthday---of course the obvious day to choose by
anyone, sez me hungering for fame in an anti-group anarchist betrayal...
Writer of this should have gotten some of Mike Beiderbeck's pictures in the
story....They are easily findable...
I read some Against The Day in public alone with no visual recognition.
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