Fwd: "Only publish good books" ---Pynchon

[Markekohut]

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> i know of a lunch TRP had around 1972 that included Jerome Charyn when he was a major 
> editor of the magazine FICTION wth Jerry's girlfrend, name escapes but she was an editor
> of that hot book mag of our time, New American Review and Faith Sale. He was the quiet one at lunch Jerry told me (who was introduced to him as Tom and didn't learn more until later)
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> And since his time with agent Melanie Jackson, check out some of her clients and his blurbs.
> i picked up an older Alison Lurie novel I had nevr read. Real Life, a 1980
> novel---remember Lurie's lifelong time at Cornell,--- Pynchon's alma mater and in this paperback edition the copyright said Melanie Jackson was the new copyright holder (from whoever)..
> seems Ms Jackson got it away from whoever, usually some kind of personal or monetary deal for personal reasons.....have therefore wondered why because of the Cornell connection.......
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Apr 11, 2013, at 8:49 PM, John Crutcher <jcrutcher at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Maybe Pynchon should have been a publisher instead of a writer. Imagine the riches we'd have if he, with his acuity, only published good books.
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>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> > In Al Siverman's "The Time of Their Lives" he quotes Katherine McNamara about a lunch her husband, Lee Goerner of Atheneum, had with Pynchon; at the end of the lunch Pynchon said "Only publish good books". This and a number of other things go to show how TRP is not just a writer but someone invloved in the the republic of letters and, more specifically, that branch of production called publishing.
>>> > Melanie Jackson, 
>>> > The fact that Penguin is being absorbed by Bertelsmann (with that dark mid-20thc. past) can't have she was  escaped the notice of the author that wrote that Intro for Orwell's 1984 in 2003.
>>> >or of 
>>> rr> Anybody willing to entertain the idea that the publishing world somehow gets worked in there?
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>>> > speculatin'
>>> > mc
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