catching up/DeLillo, Chandler, Hammett

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 26, 2006, at 2:00 PM, B C Johnson wrote:

> I will doubtless be drummed out of the Pynchon Corps for this, but  
> I feel compelled to take an affirmative stance on DeLillo.  For me,  
> his writing is interesting because it in a way reflects the  
> sensibilities of both Progressivism and Abstract Expressionism   --  
> a drip-painting Lefty, if you will.  Also, I think of him as a  
> theorist as opposed to Pynchon's experimentalist (which may account  
> for the notion that his characters lack dimension).  As to  
> technique, the consensus seems to be favorable, but I don't think  
> it's been mentioned that DeLillo is very funny, taking irony to a  
> new level (meta-irony?).  Now, about Chandler and Hammett, I'll  
> take their bastard son James Ellroy any day. . . .
>


They make good movies. "Black Dahlia" is about to premier.

Arts, Briefly; Films in Venice


E-Mail This
Printer-Friendly
Permissions
Save Article
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO; COMPILED BY BEN SISARIO (NYT) 204 words
Published: July 29, 2006

Five American films will be in competition at the Venice  
International Film Festival from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9. Now in its 63rd  
year, the festival is opening with the premiere of Brian De Palma's  
''Black Dahlia,'' an adaptation of James Ellroy's novel about the  
murder of a young Hollywood actress. It stars Josh Hartnett and  
Scarlett Johansson, below, who was a jury member in 2004. 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20060826/67b45067/attachment.html>