Not Toobage

[Keith Davis]

I remember enjoying it at the time, but can't remember what it was about...

Www.innergroovemusic.com

> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:36 AM, Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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