Not Toobage

[Jemmy Bloocher]

I enjoyed Stone Junction, although I don't remember it well now. I also
ended up with a few copies as friends seeing the TRP intro thought they
ought to get it for me; it clearly works as a marketing exercise.
On 10 Dec 2015 09:12, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>> >>>
> >>>> -
> >>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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