NP - Gaddis

[Mark Kohut]

Batchelor! Did not know THAT. Thanks....

yeah, i read (into) one of his "fun' novels once and he became for me
what many, some 'critics' even, have said about Pynchon or Nabokov--just
wordplay, verbal tricks and intellectual puzzles. I may be wrong about John
Calvin--dontcha love the name!--but that was me then and no time to try him
again.

We know this isn't true of P or N ( well, N a little bit, right?) but this
makes me laugh at John Calvin Batchleor's fantasy mind. Circumstantial
evidence, I offer, that he is not deeply in touch with reality like the
best writers.

. ... "Keep trying" indeed, another fine TRP joke... or give up.

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_t
>> he_cold_war_and_the_cia/
>> >
>> > -
>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
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