List of biographical articles on Pynchon

[David Morris]

Jules is/was a jealous attention hound. His take on GR is worthless.

On Saturday, September 27, 2014, Bob Mccart <lebishar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Muchas gracias, Kai.
>
> Do you happen to know if the booklet Lineland is available as text or .pdf
> online? I haven't been able to track it down, and don't have a good
> shipping address right now.
>
> The video 'documentary' on Pynchon featured a pretty crazy looking Siegal,
> explaining the idea that GR was the 'wish to confess,' or something, of
> Pynchon's involvement in spreading LSD to the young.
>
> That's interesting that Pynchon's wife denied the playboy interview. But I
> mean despite all the jokes Playboy is not exactly a rag, and I figure they
> could risk some big money if they print a completely fabricated interview
> with a public figure--even if it was in Japan.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lorentzen at hotmail.de');>> wrote:
>
>>
>> You should also have a look a the following two articles ---
>>
>> Andrew Gordon: Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir
>> (in: Green/Greiner/McCaffery, eds., The Vineland Papers, pp. 167-178).
>>
>> John M. Krafft: Biographical Note
>> (in: Daalsgaard/Herman/McHale, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Thomas
>> Pynchon, pp. 9-16).
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The first biographical article on Pynchon was written by Mathew Winston:
>> The Quest for Pynchon (in: Twentieth Century Literature, 21, 1975, pp.
>> 278-287).
>>
>> Finally, regarding Siegel: His booklet Lineland, in which the early
>> P-list got - to quote Paul Mackin - "played like a violin", contains a lot
>> of additional information. Thing just is that you never know whether the
>> things Siegel reports are true, because he had personal issues with Pynchon.
>>
>>
>> On 27.09.2014 03:00, Bob Mccart wrote:
>>
>>> What are the essentials? I want to know what I'm missing.
>>>
>>> I have the Jules Siegal playboy article.
>>> I have one short Siegal email interview.
>>> I have the Pynchon playboy Japan interview, translated.
>>> I have the picture of Pynchon, bearded, in a light colored suit, at a
>>> wedding (Siegal's?)
>>>
>>> Anything else?
>>> Thanks!
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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