Big News in the Literary World and Pynchon World

[Erik T. Burns]

i would expect it'll be about as hard to access the Pynchon papers as it is
to access any other writer's archives. Full access should be left to
serious students & scholars, biographers &c. and not be a tourist
attraction. (though of course there could be a curated display or even
better, digitized material accessible remotely, as there is with, say, T.
S. Eliot.)

as for why there's less, later, two theories:

1. they stopped editing him
2. he started to use email & a word processor



On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 5:03 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> >> --
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>>> >>
>>> >
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>>>
>>