dfw ... nobel specks (mildly off topic)

[Chris Sweet]

Unknown User wrote:
> 
> Paul York wrote:
> >
> > DAVID ALAN BUUCK (or is it t. bartleby jones?)wrote:
> >
> > [major snippage]
> >
> >   Time will
> > > tell, but I imagine that ours may no longer be the age of the Giant
> > > Big-Wad-Blow of Expression, which seems to be more of a modernist impulse.
> 
> lots of big, big books coming out lately (delillo's new one, vollman,
> tp, ij, murakami (sp?) has a 700 pager due in oct, and others i can't
> call up at the moment.
> 

The one Vollmann is currently working on is up to 1500 pages. It's a
non-fiction
book and apparently viking/penguin doesn't want to touch it at that
length. He
will probably have to go through an academic publisher.

-chris