Delillo and McElroy

[Toby G Levy]

jbor wrote:
>Mao II_ doesn't
>really work. I'm surprised that Pynchon chose to offer a blurb for it,
but
>it might have been his way of distancing himself from Bill Gray,
DeLillo's
>central character in that novel.

I remember really  liking Mao II at the time.  I even wrote a letter to
Delillo, which he did not respond to, expressing my appreciation for the
book.

markadouglas wrote:
>Delillo's sort of all over the map for me, but I associate him as Joseph

>McElroy's understudy before I link him at all with Pynchon.  
...
>Plus   =  Ratner's Star

This doesn't track for me at all.  I have a copy of Woman and Men, but
haven't found the energy yet to read it, but I've read almost all the
others, and I don't see any relationship, thematic or otherwise.  I just
read Plus a year or so ago.  It was kind of like listening to Ornette
Coleman.  I haven't re-read Ratner's Star since it came out, but I
remember thinking at the time that it was a really weak effort on
Delillo's part to try and write something like GR.  

And nobody has mentioned one of my favorite Delillo novels: "End Zone".

By the way, a friend of mine assures me that a new McElroy novel will
shortly be published, but that he has expressly requested that it not be
forecast in any trade publications such as Publishers Weekly.  So it will
sneak quietly into the bookstores, assuming any of them will know enough
to order a copy or two for the few McElroy readers that are out there!

Toby

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