That Locke Review of GR

[Paul Mackin]

Is it possible their were pre publication reviews? I remember being primed
for something quite prodigious when I picked up my copy that publication
morning. Had read about it beforehand I'm pretty darn sure and not just as
an announcement. Maybe that it was being put out in a more popular priced
format of paper cover for 4.95. But it was more than that. A high falutin
review on par with Locke, Poirier. Of course my brain my be giving out on
me.

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a very nice personal memory from David Cowart about discovering
> and reading Pynchon, in which he too remembers Poirer's review in *The
> Saturday Review. *
> It might have been the first review published, dunno,  since Locke's
> review was in March and pub date of GR was in February. Editors tried to
> have most major books reviewed
> on or shortly after pub date; Pub week (or the Sunday before) by the
> NYTBR.
>
> Poirer was already teaching *Lot 49* at Rutgers.
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=77eNSYr2gsQC&pg=PR4&
> dq=cowart+on+pynchon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9zqKF76jTAhWI2SYKHaiUA
> FgQ6AEIIzAA#v=onepage&q=cowart%20on%20pynchon&f=false
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I think Richard Porior (SP?) 's review in Saturday Review was also a big
>> help.  That's where I first heard of the novel.  Still have the review in a
>> file folder somewhere.
>>
>> > On Apr 15, 2017, at 3:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Besides Pynchon's steadily growing " underground" (cultish) reputation
>> at the time, this review
>> > Probably did most to make Gravity's Rainbow the literal NYT bestseller
>> it became, I dare to guess-remember and connect.
>> >
>> > Factually, I think he may have been wrong about the sales of THE CRYING
>> OF LOT 49, Which I once learned were outstanding and steady and building in
>> paperback. ( didn't happen in hardcover). But even if I remember truly, I
>> don't know the timeline with surety and those outstandingly noticeable
>> sales might not have been that until after GR was published. Many readers
>> tried discovering TRP first with that book, no surprise.
>> >
>> > You want another intellectual treat? Look up Locke's NYT review of
>> TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY. In which Pynchon is name-checked.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
>> >
>> >> On Apr 15, 2017, at 5:50 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What a magnificent review. Especially given it was written
>> >> pre-internet, and that the critic displays a deep familiarity with
>> >> Pynchon's previous work. Things to disagree with, but a long way from
>> >> today's hot take published ten minutes before the book is released.
>> >>
>> >>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:18 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html
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