International Pynchon Week 2021 in Vancouver

[Mark Thibodeau]

Sounds awesome!

When are you guys gonna have a Pynchon Week in Toronto? I'd be there
with bells on!

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:53 AM Jeff Severs <jeffsevers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Pynchonians,
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> I’m pleased to announce that International Pynchon Week 2021 will be held
> the week of June 6-12, 2021, in Vancouver, Canada, on the campus of
> the University
> of British Columbia <http://ubc.ca>. I look forward to welcoming you to
> Vancouver and UBC, my home campus, in 2021.
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> Vancouver, the first North American venue for an IPW, will place Pynchon
> scholars on his one-time home coast and about 140 miles from Seattle, where
> his novel-writing career began in the early 1960s. For those skeptical of
> national border-making (a-and who isn’t?), Vancouver is also at the heart
> of the Cascadia bioregion extending from northern California (setting for
> *Vineland*) on up to Alaska. More Vancouver connections to come in a
> general call for papers I’ll likely send out and post widely some time in
> mid-2020, with a deadline in late 2020. I’ll establish a conference website
> with info on accommodations, scheduling details, etc. some time later too.
> Feel free to spread the word in your networks.
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> Thanks, and if you have any questions I can answer at this early point in
> the planning, please do be in touch at jeffsevers at gmail.com. Best wishes
> and happy reading and writing!
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> Jeff Severs
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