Not Toobage

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I don't think he's reticent with blurbs.  Didn't he blurb (Jesus) Tom Robbins?



-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>; Plist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Dec 9, 2015 4:55 pm
Subject: Re: Not Toobage



I think he does it very occasionally. I know he blurbed Saunders once, and it seems to get reprinted on all GS's books. 


On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

In general in that blurb?

I cannot remember--or maybe never knew---of general praise from him
for a living writer.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I believe it was a blurb for Far Tortuga, but he praised Mr. Mathiessen's work in general.
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Where did P speak of Peter M.? Far Tortuga quote? maybe I remember?
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If anyone can peel their eyeballs off of the Toob...;-)
>>>
>>> Our Mr. P spoke, or wrote, very highly of Peter Mathiessen, and it's easy to
>>> see why. I've just finished Book One of Shadow Country, and I highly
>>> recommend it. Shadow Country is a fictional account of the Florida frontier
>>> in the early 1900's, and is his own reworking of three books which had been
>>> published separately at the request or demand of his publishers.
>>>
>>> Earlier this year, I read his In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, which is a
>>> non-fiction treatment of the story of Leonard Peltier and the American
>>> Indian Movement. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. It is also
>>> excellent.
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>
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