Big News in the Literary World and Pynchon World

[Mark Kohut]

Well, according to my friend who as an independent filmmaker has been to
Huntingdon, Ransom, Yale, Delaware
(among others), Huntingdon is harder than the others to get access to if
you are NOT an academic scholar...

Yes, Pynchon's will be as hard or easy as other writer's maybe, but
there are more interested non-scholars at the moment
and foreseeable future for Pynchon over the others mentioned I daresay.

As to why there  are fewer boxes, they stopped editing Roth and he just
produced more drafts.....he knew when he hadn't met his own mark.
A---and, maybe there are lots of drives, thumb or even discs, etc
compressing boxes?

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 1:34 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>