DeLillo's Down Under

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Steely wrote:  "Don DeLillo's been coasting since his great novels of the 
1970s, when he

began to encroach on Pynchon's terrain--who had stopped publishing to 
play

the part of Tom Pinecone to his fellow vagabonds in the Valley--with

wonderful paragraphs of writing such as this one from the sadly neglected

Great Jones Street"

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Mr. S.  Please explain Delillo's "coasting"--you talkin mellower, less 
ambitious, phony, what? and" Pynchon's terrain--stopped publishing to 
play Tom Pinecone"--you sayin' what here?--he had nuthin to say, lost 
something (maybe his mind) , living on his laurels, writer's block?  



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org