3 hours with Bloom

[Ya Sam]

I can't remember Bloom mentioning the trinity Vollmann, Powers, Wallace 
anywhere. Did he comment on any of them at all?


>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>To: "P  Taylor" <neon.taylor at gmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>CC: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>, JCarvill at algsoftware.com
>Subject: Re: 3 hours with Bloom
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:37:03 +0000
>
>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.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>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.
> > > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > > 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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>From: "P  Taylor" <neon.taylor at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>CC: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>, JCarvill at algsoftware.com
>Subject: Re: 3 hours with Bloom
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:02:39 +0000
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