TP on the shelves, not M&D

[Mark Kohut]

Always some Pynchon, seldom the others. What i would also like to know, and have
never tried to find out but might now, is are any BARTH, GASS OR
COOVER generally on
syllabi s CofL49 so often is? Maybe you know, Matthew?

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:35 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> In Australia Pynchon doesn't seem to be very widely read but he's
> certainly ahead of the pack in the way you mention, bookstore-wise.
> I'd put his presence well ahead of Gass, Barthes and Coover (for any
> of which I've had to waver divining rods around second-hand bookshops
> near decent local universities for even the slightest chance of
> reading).
>
> Generally Pynchon's books here have almost (but not equally) about the
> same availability as those of Atwood, Nabokov, Borges, Morrison, Le
> Guin, Rushdie, McEwan. The relatively recent Vintage reissues with the
> crazy-busy-cartoon-pop-art-Bruegel covers flooded the stores and I
> picked up a bunch of remainders to throw at friends. I expect the IV
> movie edition will have the same storefrontage.
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:19 PM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>>   Having just returned from the states I thought I would offer up my view on
>> where TP stands in comparison to other writers from his cohort e.g. W. Gass,
>> J, Barthes or R. Coover.
>>
>>   I was in Illinois over the holidays and when I could I went to bookstores,
>> looking into a couple of used bookstores and 3 different Barnes & Noble
>> locations from Southern Illinois to Chicago. Now, I know it's a small sample
>> and hardly scientific but the conclusion was clear: TP is on the shelves and
>> the others are not generally present. Whatsmore, I noticed that IV has come
>> out in a movie paperback with Joaquin's face on the cover. It seems to me
>> that he is very much out in front of the pack.
>>
>>    (In one B&N outside Champaign-Urbana, I saw Luc Herman and Steven
>> Weisenburger's "GR, Domination and Freedom"! Not many TP scholars can that.)
>>
>>   It would be interesting to see if other folks noticed something similar, I
>> expect there could be some regional differences. (Maybe more John Barthes in
>> Marlyland stores?)
>>
>> ciao
>> otis
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