<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Yeah, BURR is good but Vidal could never get any of the fictions of late modernism, pynchon nor Barth. Only Calvino if he counts. He basically was quite old-fashioned in his judgments of fiction, nineteenth century. <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Sep 26, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Charles Albert <<a href="mailto:cfalbert@gmail.com">cfalbert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Blast from the P-List past....<br><br><div><i>Reading <span class="">BURR</span> I can appreciate why Vidal
might have been a tad bitter about the outcome of the 1974 Pulitzer
process and dismissive in his take on GR....<span class="">BURR</span> is a remarkable work which, had it been nominated in any other year, would have been a prohibitive favorite for top honors.<br></i>
<i><br></i></div><i>love,<br>cfa</i><div class=""><div id=":1cl" class="" tabindex="0"><i><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></i></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Recently read Burr by Gore Vidal, and saw a great doco about him. Then tried to read Gone Girl as a light change of pace...not...now reading Blood Meridian for the second time. Unbelievable...<br>
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