3 hours with Bloom

April Phillips apes1 at cox.net
Mon Aug 21 09:17:47 CDT 2006


I wouldn't replace Roth, but I'd definitely add Umberto Eco.  Both The Name 
of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum combine phenomenal plots with intense 
theoretical ideas.


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From: "bekah" <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>; <JCarvill at algsoftware.com>; 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: RE: 3 hours with Bloom


> I'd replace Roth with Morrison.   Or at least I'd add her.  She gets put 
> down because she's black and female so there's a fear that to admire her 
> work is to fall for some PC crap.    BS.    Beloved is truly incredible - 
> as rereadable as Faulkner.
>
> Bekah
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> At 3:00 PM +0300 8/21/06, Ya Sam wrote:
>>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?
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>>>Cheers
>>>JC
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