Tristan Taormino mentions Uncle Tom

[Erik T. Burns]

No, rated R in the US.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069112/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg



On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 10:54, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roth was set for life with the book sales of Portnoy. All told, around $4
> mil....or up to $40 Mil inflation adjusted to the present....
>
> pynchon made enough to live on after Lot 49 and then GR, bestseller and
> both paperbacks----Lot 49 particularly sold strongly in
> paperback before GR....and steadily, royalties flowing...
>
> And we know TRP won that MacArthur Grant...in the eighties.....
>
> Except for all the mutual savings in living together, I'll bet TRP and
> Melanie kept finances pretty separate....
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:59 AM matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> > --
>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >
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