Not Toobage

[Mark Kohut]

Slight but I did like Stone Junction. Wanted to because of the blurb
so keep trying to think of why it was so better
than it seemed to me. A whole 'culture change' in conception and
execution is what I came up with but don't ask me
to defend this now. Just think about it re most East Coast and
old-fashioned writers. I was so much older then.
I did figure TRP was some kind of friend of Dodge.


What I will add is Pynchon's name was used to sell it into bookstores.
It worked. They bought. I don't remember how
big the returns were or whether it sold to readers OK. Didn't last.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm with you on Stone Junction -- felt that Pynchon must have gotten
> something person-to-person from Dodge that the latter wasn't able to get on
> the page, not for me anyway.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:12 PM, 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 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>
>> 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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>>
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