NP - Gaddis

[Erik T. Burns]

It was John Calvin Batchelor who dug pretty deep into the idea that Pynchon
was Salinger (*https://tinyurl.com/yae5tc6 <https://tinyurl.com/yae5tc6>). *TRP
wrote him a letter, telling him to "keep trying".

BTW, Batchelor's novels are lots of fun themselves. Goofy but literate.

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Flipping through my copy of The Recognitions...
>
> It has an intro by William Gass. Who mentions the apparently prevalent
> rumor that Gaddis was Pynchon.
>
> On Jul 16, 2017, at 3:54 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> wrote:
>
> >> A--and, Pynchon was so appreciated sub rosa, what with his powerful
> so-smart agent; his story publishing reputation--including as we know, an
> early V. bit--his writing teacher's reputation and praise, etc. that that
> wide net cultural reader/presence that was George Plimpton--paris Review
> and all--who 'liked' most of what he wrote about (if he didn't it seems he
> did not write about it?) was, yes, lucky for Pynchon but also more and less
> than luck.
> >
> > So, Pynchon basically was discovered by the CIA?
> >
> > http://www.salon.com/2012/05/27/exclusive_the_paris_review_
> the_cold_war_and_the_cia/
> >
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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