Coming down in the world

[Don Higgins]

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/ppolitics.htm


Longish paper on the issue and Pynchon. He sometimes makes conjectures that his cited source does not but otherwise. . . . 


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 From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:21 PM
Subject: Coming down in the world
 


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=F50910FE3E5F11738DDDAC0A94DC405B818FF1D3 (h/t Pynchon Wiki)
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