Follow-up, or not, on the news?

[Mark Kohut]

https://lithub.com/a-field-trip-uptown-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters/

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 5:34 PM Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
wrote:

> In March or April, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced
> that it would award Pynchon a $100,000 lifetime-achievement award at a
> May 23 ceremony it was assumed Pynchon would not attend. I was out of
> the country in late May and so might have missed the news, but I have
> still not been able to find out whether the ceremony took place,
> whether himself attended after all (probably not, or that _would_ have
> been news), whether the award was quashed, or what. Does anyone have
> solid information?
>
> John
>
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