Not Toobage

[Mike Weaver]

He also wrote an intro for Stone Junction. Maybe I was in the wrong mood 
when I read it but I thought it was the worst kind of mystic hippie wish 
fulfilment claptrap I'd ever read and could only think he and Jim Dodge 
must have got rat-arse wrecked together and that he wrote the intro 
before he went to bed.



On 09/12/2015 23:27, malignd at aol.com wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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 <http://Www.innergroovemusic.com>
>         >
>         >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Mark Kohut
>         <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
>         >>>
>         -
>         Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
>

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