Coming down in the world

[Monte Davis]

Remembering Robin Landseadel's exploration here of the Pynchon family's
fortunes and the collapse of the Pynchon brokerage in 1931. from Edmund
White's NYRB review of a new biography of novelist John Horne Burnes: 

 

"Many talented writers are from _nouveaux pauvres_ families - Melville,
Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Pynchon to name just Americans. It
is as if the family's romantic past gives them a nostalgia for lost prestige
they are eager to win back through their mythmaking works."

 

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50910FE3E5F11738DDDAC0A94DC
405B818FF1D3 (h/t Pynchon Wiki)

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