Not Toobage

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For a while, the critics were with Mr. Robbins, though he never won over the highbrows. An exception was Thomas Pynchon, who blurbed “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” calling it “a piece of working magic, warm, funny and sane.” 


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/books/tibetan-peach-pie-a-tom-robbins-memoir.html


Or, to cite another critic, "An annoying piece of dreck you'll eventually throw through a window."






-----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



http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/blurbs.html



On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:

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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