Big News in the Literary World and Pynchon World

[Mark Kohut]

He made fewer mistakes from the first drafts on.....😎

Or else he did destroy lots and these are what are left....

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:06 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pynchon's papers are rather small compared to Cormac (98 boxes); Gaddis
> (132 boxes) and Delillo (151 boxes). I'm rather surprised he left anything.
> figured he'd burn it all. but maybe the price was too good to be true.
> I visited the Huntington with Jeff Baker more than 20 yrs ago. it is a
> lovely place
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 5:31 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He meant for access. Credential--demanding. I, maybe you, lots of us could
>> not get to see those papers.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 3:14 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > ah yes, we all have heard of how difficult the winters are to bear in
>> San
>> > Marino...
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:34 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> From a friend who goes to see writer's papers.....
>> >>
>> >> _____________________________________________________________________
>> >>
>> >> Wow.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Brutal place to try and see anything though, as opposed to Delaware,
>> Yale
>> >> or Ransom.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *From:* Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 14, 2022 3:32 PM
>> >> *To:* frankmccluskey11 <frankmccluskey11 at gmail.com>; Mark M. <
>> >> pov at ix.netcom.com>; Dan Guenther <GuentherD1 at aol.com>; Stephen Mallot
>> <
>> >> sjmchess at gmail.com>; Mary Rowles <rowles.mary at gmail.com>; Dottie
>> >> Jeffries <
>> >> dottiejeffries at gmail.com>; Kendra Goldsborough <
>> >> kendragoldsborough at gmail.com>;
>> >> Four Seasons Books <4seasons.114 at gmail.com>
>> >> *Subject:* Big News in the Literary World and Pynchon World
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Huntington Library acquires archive of Thomas Pynchon - Los Angeles
>> Times
>> >>
>> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> >> From: *Daniel Mattingly via Pynchon-l* <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> >> Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 1:41 PM
>> >> Subject: Huntington Library acquires archive of Thomas Pynchon - Los
>> >> Angeles Times
>> >> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Pynchon is donating his archives!!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-12-14/the-huntington-library-acquires-papers-of-thomas-pynchon
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