SLPAD - unnumbered query on writers

[Mark Kohut]

Young TRP was very hip literarily it is safe to say, I think. Among other
ways, thru his legendary (even then!)
agent, fiery, brilliant, taste-maker and lit-winds-detector Candida
Donadio. Candida was famous for her 'avant-garde"
writers, her placing of her writers' works in leading edge periodicals like
New World Writing and more.

There is circumstantial evidence that TRP read Catch-22 in
manuscript....which he could get from Candida.....

A confirmed sighting of TRP---from Jerome Charyn's girlfriend
directly---although later in time than we are mostly talking shows his
constant desire to know what was happening. She and Jerome were at a New
American Writing lunch--where girlfriend worked-- with Faith [Sale, an
editor, [Tom's for awhile] wife of Tom's Cornell buddy Kirkpatrick Sale and
a guy only called Tom.....

https://slate.com/culture/2008/08/was-new-american-review-the-best-literary-magazine-ever.html

On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 2:49 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Back to the intro
>
> “I wasn’t the only one writing then who felt some need to stretch, to step
> out.”
>
> I’m dabbling around trying to formulate a query to search on, which would
> pick up the ones he would likely mean.
>
> He covered it in general terms already, mentioning Kerouac and Mailer & a
> couple others as inspirations.
>
> But would there be like a clade of those who were, like him, in the late
> ‘50s-early ‘60s relative younguns, feeling that inspiration, & wanting to
> stretch their horizons?
>
> Philip Roth and John Barth I think were mostly writing about what they knew
> at that point, & quite a bit afterwards.
>
> As Curly sez, “I’m tryin’ ta think, but nothing happens!”
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>