List of biographical articles on Pynchon

[Bob Mccart]

In what I read he admitted to not reading it.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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