Bleeding Edge is on Amazon

[rich]

I have no reason to doubt what you say and is much like the inherent vice
blurb. But if memory serves the new book and IV blurbs had a markedly
different tone than the others (GR, of course having no blurb at all). I
don't think it's a joke as you say but a fair description of its contents
(as you say, too). I mean the man wants to sell books and have readers I'm
sure. A joke implies you're getting something different from what you
ordered. I don't think Pynchon would want to do that or any writer for that
matter.




On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> He knows exactly what the blurb makes the book seem to be. I mean
> “channeling his inner Jewish mother”?..., come on. Our collective cringe
> was anticipated. And he had this posted on April 1 for a reason. It *is* a
> joke.  But it’s also actually representative of plot details and ideas that
> we’ll encounter in the published book. Both/and. One could so easily write
> just as bad or worse descriptions of every single one of his works of art,
> and every one of them would be representative in its way. The map is not
> the territory. He is trusting us to remember that.
>
> Blogging may not have been mainstream in 2000, but there were folks doing
> it, and that is really all he needs to run with it where he may.
>
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> T
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> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 09:51:34 -0400
> Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge is on Amazon
> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
> To: siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com
> CC: fqmorris at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
>
>
> she works (ed) as a fraud investigator as the blurb notes. the blurb makes
> her out to be a pattern recognition-era-william gibson/girl with dragon
> tattoo heroine type (but with kids)
>
> were blogs on the radar in 2000-2001?. pynchon mentions it in the blurb.
> the dot bust happened in early 2000--so we can assume the action takes
> place from say mar 00-to Sep 01
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Prashant Kumar <
> siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
> Question for all: why do you think this is a detective tale? I mean, I get
> there're precursors - Basnight, Sportello, recently - but why?
>
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