Not Toobage

[David Morris]

A positive Pynchon blurb is no guarantee of good writing. I forget the name
of the Western he highly praised, which I found just OK, but far from great
writing.

David Morris

On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steviekoteff at gmail.com');>
> To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>
> Cc: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kbob42 at gmail.com');>; Plist
> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> 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 <
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','steviekoteff at gmail.com');>
> steviekoteff at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 <
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>
>> mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 <
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kbob42 at gmail.com');>kbob42 at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 <
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>
>>> mark.kohut at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 <
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kbob42 at gmail.com');>kbob42 at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>www.innergroovemusic.com
>>> >>>
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