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	Charles Hollander — Where’s Wanda? The Case of the Bag Lady and Thomas Pynchon
		Although Tinasky described herself in the letters as a bag lady, forced to sleep under bridges and to scavenge for food, her letters were stylish, highbrow, and witty comments on life on the North Coast.
		Later in the letters Tinasky mentions the palindrome "Ukiah haiku." Not that Tinasky (or Pynchon) is the only person in the world who likes to play with Spoonerisms and palindromes, but added to the accumulating menu of her favorite tropes, this word play is another incremental link of Tinasky to Pynchon.
		Wanda Tinasky refers to the Progressive Burton K. Wheeler, who leads us to the Progressive Robert La Follette, who leads us to the founder of the Progressive Party, Theodore Roosevelt, whose granddaughter is the mother–in–law of Thomas R. Pynchon Jr.
	www.ottosell.de /pynchon/wanda.htm (5283 words)

	Wanda Tinasky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and erudite letters sent to the Mendocino Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988.
		Tinasky was thought by many to be novelist Thomas Pynchon, but is now widely believed to be an obscure Beat poet named Tom Hawkins.
		Indeed, Tinasky had written that she was writing a novel based on the local scene in Mendocino County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wanda_Tinasky (1088 words)

	Wanda Tinasky biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, is the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and dizzyingly literate letters sent to the Mendocino Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988.
		In them, Tinasky weighs in on a variety of topics - most notably local artists, poets and politicians - with a rapier wit and precision-tooled prose at odds with her apparently straitened circumstances.
		Indeed, Tinasky shed more dark on the matter by opining, in a letter published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser on 21 August 1985, that: "The novels of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon were written by the same person".
	wanda-tinasky.biography.ms (405 words)

	Corn Chips And Pie: Wanda Tinasky
		Wanda Tinasky was Thomas Pynchon, and now she's a murderer and failed poet.
		Tinasky attacked local artists, joked about pop culture, tore down city councilmembers and the like, joshed with editor Bruce Anderson, and responded with a lovely poem to a gauntlet that had been thrown down (essentially, "ok, Ms.
		Tinasky's identity was a happy, harmless local mystery for a while.
	cornchipsandpie.blogspot.com /2005/08/wanda-tinasky.html (571 words)

	Wanda Tinasky - infos.aus-germanien.de
		Wanda Tinasky war das Pseudonym eines unbekannten Autors, dessen Leserbriefe 1983-88 regelmäßig in kalifornischen Lokalpostillen abgedruckt wurden.
		Darin beschrieb sich Tinasky als über achtzigjährige Obdachlose weißrussisch-jüdischer Abstammung, die unter den Brücken des kalifornischen Mendocino County lebt und den Anderson Valley Advertiser durchaus auch als Unterwäscheersatz schätzte.
		Tinasky war offensichtlich sehr belesen (nach eigener Aussage las sie seit sechzig Jahren Reader's Digest), verbreitete sich unter anderem wiederholt über die Theologie Nikolaus von Kues und die Unfähigkeit lokaler Literaturgrößen.
	infos.aus-germanien.de /Wanda_Tinasky (301 words)

	Wanda Tinasky at AllExperts
		Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and erudite letters sent to the Mendocino Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988.
		Tinasky was thought by many to be novelist Thomas Pynchon, but is now widely believed to be an obscure Beat Generation poet named Tom Hawkins.
		Similarities (both Tinasky and Pynchon worked for Boeing) were easy to play up, and discrepancies (Tinasky worked for Boeing ten years before Pynchon) just as easy to play down.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wa/wanda_tinasky.htm (1183 words)

	Invisible, Inc.
		WANDA TINASKY MADE HER FIRST appearance in April 1983, when letters to the editor signed with her name began appearing in a Mendocino County weekly, the Commentary.
		And Wanda was no friend to the culture industry, either at the high end ("If you're sap enough to buy a book some whore of a paid reviewer recommends, you get what you deserve") or low ("I admire Phil Donahue for calling himself a ëworkaholic.' Phil's idea of work is sitting under a hair dryer").
		Wanda Tinasky is out to teach people a lesson in democracy and respect.
	www.mclemee.com /id38.html (3961 words)

	Probability and Propositions
		In them, Tinasky weighs in on a variety of topics - most notably local artists, writers, poets and politicians - with an irreverent wit and literate polish at odds with her apparently straitened circumstances.
		Then the proposition that Tinasky is Hawkins is identical to the proposition that Tinasky is Tinasky.
		In the Tinasky case, a referentialist might respond flat-footedly by saying that the description of the case begs the question against them, as their position is committed to the falsity of (T1).
	consc.net /papers/probability.html (12327 words)

	Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
		Wanda Tinasky was a faithful writer of letters to the Advertiser during the late '80s, a period when Pynchon was writing his 1990 Northern California novel, "Vineland." Perhaps he was living in the area, doing on-location research; perhaps he even was the chatty, zany bag lady that Tinasky claimed to be.
		Tinasky, whom no one has ever met, hasn't been heard from since the speculation began in earnest.
		Tinasky's style is not one that everyone will appreciate.
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/mason-dixon/reviews/post.html (469 words)

	Has Anyone Ever Seen Thomas Pynchon And Wanda Tinasky in the Same Room? / We didn't think so. Neither does a small band ...
		The so-called Wanda Tinasky Research Group contends there is a striking similarity between Pynchon's writing style and the ``verbal pyrotechnics'' of Tinasky's letters, which are laced with historical and literary references, limericks, insults, fancy French and German phrases and profanity.
		AVA publisher Anderson said the ``meticulously typed'' letters signed Wanda Tinasky began arriving in 1984, shortly after he bought the weekly, and the letters ceased in 1989, a few months after the debut of ``Vineland.'' The letters dealt with local politics and characters, literature, pop culture, television and other matters.
		In one letter, Tinasky called Anderson a ``horsewhippable country editor.'' In another letter, she wrote: ``There is a hole in the wall in Fort Bragg called Fiddler's Green, where under-the- bridge characters desperate for a few pennies sell the beloved paperbacks they have been lugging around on their skin backs.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1995/06/11/SC21467.DTL&type=printable (1512 words)

	New York Press - ALEXANDER COCKBURN - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was during the preparation of the annotated Letters that Melanie Jackson, Pynchon’s wife, issued on behalf of her husband a firm denial of the Pynchon/Tinasky congruence.
		Foster establishes beyond any conceivable doubt that Wanda Tinasky was in fact Tom Hawkins, born in Arkansas on Jan. 11, 1927, and growing up in Port Angeles, WA, not far from where I write.
		Moore believed that Tinasky was Pynchon, which reminds me, while I was living in Key West, writing for the AVA about Oswald making a rational leftist bet that it would help Cuba to shoot JFK, Iused to run into Gaddis’ ex-wife Judith at cocktail parties.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=3218 (1311 words)

	Salon \| Media Circus: The crying over Lot 49 of Thomas Pynchon's letters
		Among these scholars is a secretive female writer who works under the nom de plume TR Factor; she edited a 1995 volume titled "The Letters of Wanda Tinasky" (Vers Libre Press).
		After scanning the excerpts in the Times, Factor is quick to single out similarities between the Tinasky missives and the letters to Donadio.
		"Wanda was an avid moviegoer," Factor notes, referring to Pynchon's dreams of writing film criticism for Esquire.
	archive.salon.com /media/1998/03/10media2.html (1041 words)

	Gallery Bookshop - Tony Miksak's Words On Books
		Who is Wanda Tinasky, and who in hell does she think she is? Wanda wrote scathingly funny critiques of local 'artistes' and politicians, publishing her observations in the same periodicals in which community activists, left and right, agitated, and in which local poets contributed their musings on the eternal verities."
		Wanda's final letter was published in September,1988, after which she mysteriously disappeared from public view.
		He was fairly certain Pynchon's style was nothing like that of Wanda Tinasky, but lacked materials needed to identify the true author.
	www.gallerybooks.com /bkm/bkm001103.html (751 words)

	CNN - Where's Thomas Pynchon? - June 5, 1997
		And in the early 1980s, the Anderson Valley Advertiser, a small newspaper in Northern California, began getting letters from a writer called Wanda Tinasky, taking some hard swipes at powerful literary figures -- Alice Walker and critic John Leonard among them.
		Now it is widely believed by literary scholars that Pynchon was Wanda Tinasky.
		The Letters of Wanda Tinasky Thomas Pynchon: a homeless woman in California?
	cgi.cnn.com /US/9706/05/pynchon (688 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		This material is interesting both for the picture it presents of northern California life—and the tempests in a small-town teapot Wanda could stir up—and for the admiration it inspires for Anderson’s progressive politics.
		But the Wanda letters are the reason to get this book.
		But you don’t have to know Pynchon to love Wanda: her style and vision take us through the looking glass to give us a topsy-turvy look at our times.
	centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/96_3/lettersofwanda.html (316 words)

	WANDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Search the WANDA Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the WANDA Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named WANDA at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/W/WANDA.htm (73 words)

	Salon \| Media Circus: The crying over Lot 49 of Thomas Pynchon's letters
		Among these scholars is a secretive female writer who works under the nom de plume TR Factor; she edited a 1995 volume titled "The Letters of Wanda Tinasky" (Vers Libre Press).
		After scanning the excerpts in the Times, Factor is quick to single out similarities between the Tinasky missives and the letters to Donadio.
		"Wanda was an avid moviegoer," Factor notes, referring to Pynchon's dreams of writing film criticism for Esquire.
	www.salon.com /media/1998/03/10media2.html (1041 words)

	A&E May 22, 1997 -- cover story
		Pynchon almost definitely lived in the area during the time these letters were written, although his publicist (who also happens to be his wife) denies his authorship.
		Tinasky also refers to working at Boeing in the early '60s, which is when Pynchon worked there.
		Tinasky (who AVA readers figured was a man long before they thought it was Pynchon) is pretty much of an asshole.
	www.mndaily.com /ae/Print/1997/19/st/csapoc.html (1376 words)

	Wanda Summaries on Shvoong
		Wanda Hickey''s Night of Golden Memories : And Other Disasters
		For that small but populous slice of the world reachable by radio station WOR (New York City and environs), Jean Shepherd was once a nightly fixture,...
		The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch is the first English translation of this early 20th century feminist classic by an SM pioneer.
	www.shvoong.com /tags/wanda (273 words)

	Cleveland.com's Printer-Friendly Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He is prohibited from talking about the ransom note in the case of murdered child JonBenet Ramsey, or the "Army of God" letters connected with the 1998 Olympic Park bombing - cases he's worked on but haven't yet come to trial.
		The author claimed to be Wanda Tinasky, an elderly Jewish woman who lived under a bridge in foggy Fort Bragg, Calif. Some local people believed that Wanda could only have been Thomas Pynchon, possibly the most elusive and near-anonymous major author in America.
		One smiles at the passion of those who believed Wanda was really Pynchon - and shares some of their disappointment when Foster succeeds in identifying the letters' true author, bringing up again that same question: Do we truly want an America totally free of hoaxes, shams and false attributions?
	www.cleveland.com /printer/printer.ssf?/entertainment/pd/b03autho.html (755 words)

	Who's Writing Whose Writing? Gaddis, Green, Pynchon and Tinasky
		The justly famous American novelist, Thomas Pynchon, is almost certainly the pseudonymous comic letter writer, Wanda Tinasky.” Plans to publish the letters in book form slowly take shape.
		May 1996: The Letters of Wanda Tinasky is published, on the premise that Thomas Pynchon almost certainly wrote the letters.
		A chapter is devoted to the Tinasky letters, containing many more details corroborating Hawkins as author than time and copyright laws permit me to include here.
	www.nyx.org /~awestrop/gaddis/whoswho.html (1386 words)

	Amazon.com: The Letters of Wanda Tinasky: Books: Wanda Tinasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The book not only reprints all the Wanda letters, but accompanies them with a smart and extensive annotated guide to all the arcane literary and local references in them...
		I find myself unable to make up my mind, but I'm fascinated with Wanda, whoever she or he is. If she isn't Mr.
		Pynchon, but to explain why I like Wanda, whoever she is. To explore what we talk about when we talk about the "Pynchonesque".
	www.amazon.com /Letters-Wanda-Tinasky/dp/0965288102 (1090 words)

	The Anderson Valley: Behind the Redwoods, A California Dream - New York Times
		Anderson promoted the idea that a certain Wanda Tinasky, who wrote regular letters to the paper, was in reality the reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon, and that Mr.
		''In fact,'' the editor said, ''Tinasky was nothing but an erudite old hippie who later murdered his wife and killed himself.
		The general air of zaniness in the valley is enhanced by boontling.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E7DE123EF93BA35752C0A9659C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=4 (589 words)

	Pynchon - Music: PopCanon
		Song 4, "Wanda Tinasky," about the irascible woman who is of particular interest to fans of Thomas Pynchon.
		Wanda Tinasky likes to watch the TV And when she scrubs the john she always leaves it on.
		Wanda was full of rage back in the Reagan age,
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_music_popcanon.html (1303 words)

	Thomas Pynchon Biography (Writer) — FactMonster.com
		Salinger, Pynchon has dodged publicity to the point where his reclusiveness has defined his public image, creating a rich environment for speculation and rumor about the man himself.
		Throughout the 1990s scholars and fans debated whether Pynchon was really the man behind The Letters of Wanda Tinasky to the AVA, a collection of letters written in the late '80s to a central California newspaper.
		In 2000 the book Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous claimed that Pynchon was not Wanda Tinasky.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/thomaspynchon.html (301 words)

	Thomas_Pynchon : Essential Historical Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links.
		Rumors Pynchon is sometimes assumed to be identical to a certain Wanda Tinasky, who wrote several letters in the late 1980s that were published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser in Anderson Valley, California.
		A collection of these letters are printed as a paperback book named The Letters of Wanda Tinasky; however, Pynchon himself denies having written the letters.
		Trivia Pynchonmania: Thomas Pynchon is guest-"star" in an episode of the Simpsons: "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife".
	www.llpoh.org /Reviewing_the_20th_century/Thomas_Pynchon.html (893 words)

	BookWeb: Bookselling This Week Archives: Booksmith Throws Pynchon Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Frank said the publicity surrounding the reclusive author has led him to acquire The Letters of Wanda Tinasky (tr factor), a series of letters that some purport were written by Pynchon to the Anderson Valley Advertiser during his time in Northern California in the 80s while writing Vineland (Viking).
		Rumor has it that the language in Mason and Dixon closely resembles that of the Wanda Tinasky letters.
		The Bay Area bookseller said he's already taken "six or eight pre-orders" for the compilation, and is using the Booksmith's website to promote Pynchon's novels, the Pynchon quiz, and trading cards.
	www.bookweb.org /news/btw/archive/1082.html (278 words)

	Margaret Smith Court - Encyclopedia.com
		FIRST PERSON: BABY BORN FROM RAPE; A NIGHTMARE BEGAN FOR MARGARET SMITH WHEN HER DAUGHTER WAS LEFT PARALYSED BY AN ACCIDENT.(Features)
		The calculus of love and nightmare: 'The Handmaid's Tale' and the dystopian tradition.(Women Writers: Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Rosellen Brown, Lee Smith, Wanda Tinasky)
		The case of the bag lady and Thomas Pynchon.(Women Writers: Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Rosellen Brown, Lee Smith, Wanda Tinasky)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-CourtMargaretSmith.html (499 words)

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