Launch Parties, Thomas Pynchon, and More
Michael Stephen Fuchs, author of THE MANUSCRIPT from Macmillan New Writing, dropped by to congratulate David Isaak and brought up the question of the launch party. Now that the earl is out of jail and Gus of Goth is between jobs, your reporter interviewed the earl who once remarked that “Thomas Pynchon is a party animal.”
“Given the distance between the UK and the US I suggest a cruise ship be hired,” the earl said. After shooting the stars with a sextant he pointed to a spot on the map. “Bermuda,” he said. “The launch party should be held in Bermuda.”
The earl envisions all of Macmillan New Writing’s cast of authors be “whisked” to Bermuda for ten days of company sponsored revelry. He recommends Southhampton where Waltraut Frothingmunster honeymooned, a trip captured in her memoire “Pynch Me, It’s Pynchon.”
Gus of Goth can handle the catering. “I’ll get Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson for the launch party,” Gus said. “They owe me big time.”
November 17th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Hmmm. Check out this quote:
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…the man simply chooses not to be a public figure, an attitude that resonates on a frequency so out of phase with that of the prevailing culture that if Pynchon and Paris Hilton were ever to meet—the circumstances, I admit, are beyond imagining—the resulting matter/antimatter explosion would vaporize everything from here to Tau Ceti IV.
–Arthur Salm, Book Critic, San Diego Union Tribune
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Apparently the circumstances *aren’t* beyond imagining after all. David Thayer–boldly imagining where book reviewers fear to tread.