NP--Cormac and New Vollman

[Vivek Ahlawat]

Murakami's Underground is also out. Its a non fiction
book about the gas attacks in the Tokyo metro.
Interesting cover: a map of the metro on lungs.
I have also to get through another book that was
recommended to me on a mailing list: The River by
Edward Hooper. Exhaustive and long, a 1000 page
journey to the source of AIDS. Good to read beside
Vollmann.
--- Mark Flaum <mflaum at softhome.net> wrote:
> Well, I have read the upcoming Vollmann book _The
> Royal Family_ (got 
> a copy through ebay), and I was quite impressed. 
> Though I recall you 
> (Rich) in particular expressed distaste for
> Vollmann's fascination 
> with prostitutes and their environment, so perhaps
> you won't enjoy it 
> as much as I did.
> 
> I've also heard, by way of the Vollmann mailing
> list, that the next 
> book in the Seven Dreams series is finished.  I
> don't know when it 
> will be published.
> 
> As for upcoming books, John Crowley's next book in
> the Aegypt series 
> is also due next month. And Lawrence Norfolk has a
> new book coming 
> out in the UK in September.  And the reissue of
> Haruki Murakami's 
> _Norwegian Wood_ should probably be happening soon. 
> It's just a 
> great summer for us readers, sez I (and by the way,
> all of these 
> authors I recommend in a sort of "if you like
> Pynchon" way, for those 
> who don't know them.  I first heard all these names
> here on the list).
> 
> Good to hear about McCarthy, too, though I guess
> we'll have to wait a 
> while yet.  Him and that Pynchon fellow...
> 
> Anyone else read _The Book of Lazarus_ by Richard
> Grossman?  I'm 
> about halfway through, and like it so far. 
> Document/scrapbook sort 
> of thing, kind of like _House of Leaves_ transposed
> from horror film 
> to mafia flick, without footnotes.
> 
> And all that discussion of Stanislaw Lem not long
> ago has pushed me 
> halfway through _Imaginary Magnitude_, with _Perfect
> Vacuum_ on the 
> 'to read' shelf.  Along with some Victor Pelevin
> stories and a 
> collection of Indian fiction selected by Salman
> Rushdie.
> 
> Okay, now everyone knows my summer reading.  Back to
> the regularly 
> scheduled silence.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> P.S. as for Amazon.com database silliness, my
> 'personalized home 
> page' front is now displaying an ad for _The Tunnel_
> by William Gass, 
> plus mention of Gaddis and some hiphop.  Obviously,
> I spend too much 
> money at that web site.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 'Decisions are never made - at best they manage to
> emerge, from a chaos of
> peeves, whims, hallucinations, and general
> assholery' - GR
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 2:03 AM -0500 7/19/00, Richard Romeo wrote:
> >Hi all--
> >
> >Just wanted to let folks know that supposedly
> Cormac McCarthy's next novel
> >will apparently take place in New Orleans--no
> details other than that.
> >
> >Reviews of Vollmann's new novel have been
> mixed--anyone get an advanced copy
> >for reviewing and such?
> >
> >Rich
> 


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