<div dir="ltr"><div><div>DeLillo: I really liked <i>Mean Streets</i>. I grew up in the Bronx and
Scorsese in Lower Manhattan, in Little Italy, but we shared the same
language, the same accents and the same behaviours. Needless to say I
was familiar with troublemakers like Robert De Niro's character, I even
knew some of them very well. But the most significant experience
probably dates back further. I was very young when I saw <i>Marty</i> by
Delbert Mann, which takes place where I used to live, in the Italian
part of the Bronx. The film was shown in Manhattan, so there were eight
of us guys, packed in a car to go and watch it. The opening scene takes
place in Arthur Avenue. It was our place! Seeing our street, the shops
we patronized, there in a movie theatre, that was amazing. It was as if
our very existence was acknowledged. We never would have thought that
somebody would make a film in those streets.<br><br></div>being a full-fledged NYC guinea, well, Delillo resonates. The Sopranos would be my equivalent<br><br></div>rich<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:16 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msacha1121@gmail.com" target="_blank">msacha1121@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Yeah, it's definitely more of a people caught up in mass events kind of deal. Less so end zone which is more tongue in cheek even than the rest of his stuff.<br><br></div><div>Love the interview where DD talks about reading the paper and, seeing the pairing of the two headlines, concludes immediately that they're inextricably, arcanely linked with one another. I like to think this happens to him about a hundred times a day</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Aug 27, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Erik Burns <<a href="mailto:eburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">eburns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">It's about baseball, but it's really about so much more than that. DeLillo knows how to squeeze sports for full value (see also End Zone and Amazons, not to mention the stadium wedding scene in Mao II)<br><br>Now I want to read Underworld again!<br><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com" target="_blank">kelber@mindspring.com</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">‎8/‎27/‎2015 22:02</span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:jbloocher@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jemmy Bloocher</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Cc: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:joeallonby@gmail.com" target="_blank">Joe Allonby</a>; <a href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org" target="_blank">pynchon -l</a>; <a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">Mark Kohut</a></span><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Re:</span><br><br></div>Based on everyone's feedback, I'm ready to give it a try. Didn't know about the prologue vs body of book. Thanks, all.<br><br>Laura<br>-----Original Message-----<br><br>From: Jemmy Bloocher <br><br>Sent: Aug 27, 2015 4:31 PM<br><br>To: <a href="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com" target="_blank">kelber@mindspring.com</a><br><br>Cc: Joe Allonby , pynchon -l , Mark Kohut <br><br>Subject: Re:<br><br><br><br>That pretty much sums up my reaction to sports of all kinds, yet I enjoyed Underworld (on the second attempt) so you never know...<br>On 27 Aug 2015 17:43, "<a href="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com" target="_blank">kelber@mindspring.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com" target="_blank">kelber@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br>I don't like baseball. Pretty much any sport bores the shit out of me. Should I attempt Underworld?<br>Laura<br><br>Mark Kohut <<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>I do not seem to see as much attention to it as a Great book compared<br>to many others, even Delillo's others.<br><br>On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Joe Allonby <<a href="mailto:joeallonby@gmail.com" target="_blank">joeallonby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I read it when it was first published. I enjoyed it, but then again I like<br>> baseball.<br>><br>> Now that I think about it, it is one of the few books that I have initially<br>> thought great that I have never reread.<br>><br>><br>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Mark Kohut <<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Melissa Harrison â€@M_Z_Harrison 12m12 minutes ago<br>>><br>>> Rachel Kushner’s Guardian piece on DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD makes me<br>>> wonder if I should have another (third) go at reading the bastard.<br>>> -<br>>> Pynchon-l / <a href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l" target="_blank">http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l</a><br>><br>><br>-<br>Pynchon-l / <a href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l" target="_blank">http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l</a><br>-<br>Pynchon-l / <a href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l" target="_blank">http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>