A Disclaimer: The following texts are intended for non-profit, educational use only. Those who would try to make money off our compilation should consider the jeopardy in which they place our work.

--Brandon Stafford, Cadence Williams, Andre Hurwitz, and Travis Miller.

A Short Story:

• Mortality and Mercy in Vienna, Epoch (Cornell Univ.) Spring, 1959.

Introductions: The Farina introduction contains some biographical information about Pynchon, who was a classmate of Farina at Cornell. The latter introduction deals more with Barthelme's work than Pynchon.

• Richard Farina, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, 1966.
• Donald Barthelme, The Teachings of Don B., 1992.

New York Times Book Review Pieces:

• "Nearer, My Couch, To Thee," June 6, 1993, pp. 3 and 5.
• A paragraph in support of Rushdie in "Words for Salman Rushdie," March 12, 1989, p. 29.
• Review of Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, April 10, 1988, pp. 1, 47, and 49.
• "Is It OK To Be a Luddite?" October 28, 1984, pp. 1, 40, and 41.
• A brief letter to the editor on July 17, 1966, pp. 22 and 24.

Pieces in Other Magazines:

• "Togetherness" in Aerospace Safety, 16: 12 (1960) pp.6-8.
• "A Gift of Books," in Holiday, December, 1965, pp. 164-5
• "A Journey Into The Mind of Watts," in The New York Times Magazine, June 12, 1966, pp. 34-36 and 80-83.

Liner Notes: "Liner notes" are the short essays that often come tucked inside a CD, tape, or record case.

• "Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones" liner notes to Spike Jones' album, Catalyst CD, 1994.

• "Nobody's Cool" liner notes to Lotion's album, 1995.

Endorsements: These are rarely more than a few sentences by Pynchon that have appeared on the back of books. You can read all the blurbs we've got by clicking on this word: blurbaroonies!

• Richard Farina, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Random House, 1966.
• Hughes Rudd, My Escape From the CIA (and Other Improbable Events), Dutton, 1966.
• John Speicher, Looking for Baby Paradise, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.
• David Shetzline, DeFord, Random House, 1968.
• Rudolph Wurlitzer, Nog, Pocket Books, 1970.
• Marge Piercy, Dance the Eagles to Sleep, Fawcett, 1971.
• Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS, Vintage Books, 1974.
• M.F. Beal, Amazon One (from NYTBR 4/13/75 advertisement, not used on the book itself).
• Peter Matthiessen, Far Tortuga, Viking, 1975.
• Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Bantam, 1977.
• Phyllis Gebauer, The Pagan Blessing, Viking, 1979.
• Laurel Goldman, Sounding the Territory, Knopf, 1982.
• Steve Erickson, Days Between Stations, Vintage, 1986.
• David Attoe, Lion at the Door, Little, Brown, 1989.
• Jim Dodge, Stone Junction, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
• Howard A. Rodman, Destiny Express, Atheneum, 1990.
• Don DeLillo, Mao II, Penguin Books, 1991.
• James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We've Had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy -- and the World's Getting Worse, HarperCollins, 1992.
• Jack Kelly, Mad Dog, Atheneum, 1992.
• Steve Erickson, Arc d'X, Poseidon Press, 1993.
• George Saunders, Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella. Random House, 1996.

Thanks go to Bob Orlowsky for compiling most of these citations and providing the text for a couple of them. Edward Heinemann, Timothy C. May, Paul DiFilippo, and someone who goes by "Outerspacia" also contributed some of the texts.

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