2012 Philip K. Dick Festival

[Mark Kohut]

Authors' have exclusivity contracts, that is how contracts are almost always written. Roth's are
too, as were Bellow's, etc., although good agents will have conditions that they have to be a part
of certain 'deals'.
 
That does not rule out a mutual agreement between the publisher and other rights' holders for 
special editions, licenses, etc.....such as a LofA edition would be. 
 
I would still like to know the story of the Modern Library listing for GR and its disappearance.
Like Slothrop. 
 
 
 

From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Don Higgins <bencanard2000 at yahoo.com>; Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: 2012 Philip K. Dick Festival

On 05.06.2012 02:02, Don Higgins wrote: 
>> Why has Roth several LoA volumes while still alive and Pynchon hasn't? P doesn't want to be included? The present publishers have an exclusivity [right term?] clause in their contracts.   Your second point might be correct; knowing next to nothing about publishing in general and even less about Pynchon's contracts, I really cannot tell.That Tom does not "want to be included" seems way off to me. I'd perhaps buy that in case he had stopped writing after "Gravity's Rainbow". But ever since Pynchon published "Slow Learner" (with that nice-boy-intro) he's on his way back to mainstream success . And of course he would accept the Nobel Prize. Probably even with a speech in Stockholm ... given without sunglasses.Just read in the paper (FAZ, p. 35) that Philip Roth receives the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award, which will bring him not only 50 000 Euro yet also a Miró sculpture. In the article praising Roth' merits it is  mentioned that he has the "honor"
 to see his works published during lifetime in the Library of America: "Zu den unzähligen Auszeichnungen, die Philip Roth erhalten hat, gesellt sich auch die Ehre, sein Werk noch zu Lebzeiten in der feinen Klassikeredition 'Library of America' gesammelt zu sehen, wo illustre Kollegen wie Raymond Chandler, Vladimir Nabokow oder Raymond Carver schon ihren Platz haben." I'd make any bet that Tom would like to see his works in the LoA, too. Let's face it: Pynchon cannot be labeled as as anti-establishment writer. At least not anymore.        
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