On the 50th Anniversary of V. (duplicate post since I was too stupid to fill in subject line)

[Mark Kohut]

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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Below I just sent to an executvie- friend I know at HarperCollins....they have to start planning NOW (or earlier)......in a week or so, I will 
ask a different friend, an editor who has done business with her, to send this suggestion, differently worded,  to Ms. Jackson
in case Harper doesn't even ask....
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Anyway, I've been a major contributor to the good Pynchon wiki and a major bloviator on the Pynchon listserve, W.A.S.T.E. Which is all prolegomena, as Kant once said, to this suggestion to YOU to make this  happen, if you agree with my judgment, since it might not come from current editorial. 
 
Harper owns the copyright to Pynchon's first nove l"V."Lippincott, 1963. A Cork Smith book then. 50-year anniversaries are all the rage and chance for new publicity for serious modern classics. We've seen it for To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita, On the Road, evenThe Ginger Man and others I've surely missed or forgotten.
"V."deserves a 50-year reissue---as with TKAM, same cover inho; I mean even B & N features that book and cover in their store pics---if Ms. Melanie Jackson also thinks so but hasn't brought it up. Yet. 

P.S. Because the copyright page has 1961 and 1963 copyrights, some libraries are confused about cataloging it, a listserve scholar once researched. Lippincott is long gone and the 1961 date copyrights the part of "V." which first appeared in The Noble Savage literary magazine (Saul Bellow and others' work then) as "Under the Rose"....I'll bet many libraries would buy it for sure and some regular folks.