AW: Re: Tristan Taormino mentions Uncle Tom

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"Portnoy's Complaint" was made into a movie? X-rated, I trust?



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matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> schrieb am Montag, 11. September 2023 um 10:58:


> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thanks. It adds some info to the TP bio albeit without exact dates. But
> let's see.
> 
> Tristan was born in 1971 and raised primarily by her mother on Long Island
> (thanks Wikipedia). She says that TP "he lived with us when I was a baby,
> when I was young." So that would be early to mid-'70's? And he was "between
> places"? (Try that line on your next date and see how far it goes.) He
> hasn't met Melanie Jackson yet (I assume), he is in the midst of prolonged
> writer's block (as from a letter he wrote), and is disenchanted by literary
> fame (he skips the Big Lit Dinner event). Maybe he takes care of her
> sometimes, eating all the Count Chocula.
> 
> The price one pays for positioning oneself as TP has done is clear. Had he
> written more realistic and accessible (if a bit 'scandalous') material he
> could have gone the route of Roth. Portnoy's Complaint was published in
> '69 and made into a movie by '72. (Many more such followed.) The royalties
> would make things easier for Roth; his position would allow him to
> convert his Cultural Capital into Economic Capital more quickly and at a
> greater scale. Moreover, the more prizes and accolades you acquire, the
> more they bestow upon you.
> Fortunately, Pynchon has his wife to help him out.
> 
> ciao
> mc otis
> 
> On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 1:12 AM Erik T. Burns eburns at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > https://jezebel.com/tristan-taormino-sex-writer-memoir-1850818210
> > 
> > I love that your uncle Thomas Pynchon makes some cameos in the book, as he
> > has on The Simpsons.
> > 
> > He’s known to elude the media. Like, the photograph they run is his college
> > yearbook photo from Cornell. He is notoriously very, very private, perhaps
> > one of the great reclusive literary minds of our time. This gets back to
> > the issue of one, not capitalizing on that relationship, which would be
> > shitty, and two, not wanting to violate his privacy. And of course, I know
> > things about him. This isn’t in the book, but at some point he lived with
> > my mom and me. He was like, between places or something, and so he lived
> > with us when I was a baby, when I was young. Especially when I was younger,
> > I had a lot of contact with him. The truth is, he did stand out to me in my
> > family as the most similar to me. He was a weirdo and he was eccentric and
> > he was brilliant and he was affectionate in a way that none of the other
> > people on that side of my family were. I felt drawn to him just
> > automatically. That’s why he is identified in my book as Uncle Tom, because
> > to me, he’s Uncle Tom.
> > 
> > Are you still in touch?
> > 
> > Yeah, I sent him the book. I look forward to hearing from him.
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