3 hours with Bloom

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I'm about a quarter through William T. Vollmann"s "The Royal Family", and it's powerful , has great big themes and many moments of great poetic beauty and terror. I'm at the same crossroads in "Family" that I reached at a similar point in GR (will I hang on?, or just keep reading Proust or watch "Family Guy"instead), so the results aren't tallied and totalled quite yet. I'm sure others will chime in with their own points of view on Vollmann's work.
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From: "P  Taylor" <neon.taylor at gmail.com>
> Maybe Harper Lee if she had written more...  Always enjoy perusing the
> Mockingbird myself.
> 
> --PT
> 
> On 8/21/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Delillo's "Underworld" is a masterful book, with a scale and themes as
> > great as GR. "White Noise" has a fantastically mannered tone and is a small
> > work of comic genius.
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> > From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> > > BTW, do you guys agree with Bloom's quartet of the  greatest living
> > American
> > > writers: Pynchon, McCarthy, Roth, Delillo? I mean, I have nothing
> > against
> > > the first one, but can you think of anyone replacing somebody from the
> > rest?
> > >
> > > In this interview when asked to distinguish some of the younger writers
> > > Bloom somehow got vague and named only a couple of poets, looks like
> > he's a
> > > little bit behind the contemporary lit process.
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: "John Carvill" <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>
> > > >To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > > >Subject: RE: 3 hours with Bloom
> > > >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:11:37 +0100
> > > >
> > > >Speaking of Bloom, does anyone have an electronic copy of his review of
> > > >Vineland, I think it was in the Paris Review?
> > > >
> > > >Cheers
> > > >JC
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