Ithaca, Cornell University, 1958. A pivotal volume dating from Pynchon's years as an undergraduate at Cornell. Pynchon, as "Tom Pynchon," is listed as being on the editorial board; Richard Farina contributes the undergraduate short story winner "With a Copy of Dylan Under My Arm" and two poems. In his introduction to Farina's novel Been Down So Long It Looks Up to Me, Pynchon recounts his first encounter with Farina as being when he worked on Cornell Writer as a junior editor and these pieces by Farina came in. The two eventually became great friends, with Pynchon being Farina's Best Man at his wedding to Mimi Baez. Pynchon wrote that he idolized Farina in college, but the relationship changed after Pynchon's first novel was published and he became a mentor to Farina. Label of novelist James McConkey, faculty advisor, on the front cover; vertical crease to rear cover and final pages. Near fine in stapled wrappers. [#028531] SOLD