Misc on Pynchon and his blurbs

[Michel]

Many of the blurbs Pynchon provided were mainly because P and author 
shared the same agent.  Another category is (like the praise for Phyllis 
Gebauer) friendship. Donadio asked him to ask a recommendation for 
Catch-22, but that was prior to P publishing V., I think - somewhere 
near the end of 1962 and it was never used.

The recommendation for Warlock was part of a series in a magazirne 
called Holiday -maybe he got paid for it?

Michel.


Mark Kohut schreef op 2015-12-11 13:15:
> a passing thought I used to have on many of the books Pynchon
> blurbed was........how unlike his own writing many--most?--ofwrite  
> them were.
> (Saunders, few others are like).
> 
> from Warlock, thru the aforementioned Stone Junction, thru graphic 
> novels,
> TRP seemed to like and praise beyond his own ways of writing---or is he
> so almost-uniquely himself that this is trivially true?
> 
> Except maybe visionarily?
> 
> Generosity of appreciation? I have always thought he also praised what 
> he
> wanted to learn from as a writer. (Compared to many blurbers who we see
> are asked to blurb because the book is much like their own work, at
> least superficially)
> 
> Discuss.
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Michel
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