226 Linden Ave: Richard Fariña Apartment

Ithaca Literary Tour

226 Linden Ave: Richard Fariña Apartment

Ithaca, New York 14850, United States

Created By: Ithaca Heritage

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Author Richard Fariña (1937-1966), who wrote the popular counterculture novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) based on experiences at Cornell, lived in this house at 226 Linden Avenue in fall 1958. His friend, author Thomas Pynchon, also lived here off and on with Fariña. The setting for much of Fariña's novel is Ithaca's Collegetown, although the names have been changed to Mentor University in the town of Athene.

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