pynchon-l-digest V2 #2105/Coover

[Richard Romeo]

Funny in these times of paranoia and dread, I find the warped world of 
Coover's fictions not only welcoming but comforting.
Seeing as my hero is 70 next year, stands to reason his hero Lucky Pierre 
saga, purportedly called Raw Footage, will be published, a book he's had 
around for about 30 yrs, excerpts of which I've been tracking down in 
obscure journals--they are very funny as hell and deeply disturbing (in a 
good way)
Coover has always said he's a realist, as Kafka was a realist.
I was in Times Square on 9-11--I didn't think DeLillo or other dread-studded 
writers, but Coover's Times Square extravaganza in The Public Burning. It 
did feel like I'd just come out of the movie theater with my 3-D glasses on.

I fear everyone will be writing about mainstream dread in the near future. 
(in a bad way)

Rich

>From: "luther blissett" <blissettluther at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2105
>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:01:28 +0000
>
>>Besides anything that can (and maybe must) be said against Tricky Dicky: 
>>he
>>was the one who got the troops out of Vietnam and ended the war. Btw, 
>>isn't
>>he the protagonist of Robert Coover's "The Public Burning?"
>>
>>Otto
>
>  Yep, Ol Iron Butt, the 'Fighting Quaker'...  Coover actually 
>fictionalized
>Tricky Dick twice.  I found a book in a used shop in Minneapolis some years
>back that I've not seen since, written by Coover in the late 80's, called
>"Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?"-- like an alternate
>history addendunm to "The Public Burning", the poor old crook portraied as 
>a
>brain-damaged football player, with an excellent old photo on the cover of 
>a
>teenage Nixon in pads and jersey.
>
>
>Luther
>
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