re. QT

[rich]

u should read two recent short stories that appeared in the New
Yorker--one is about one of Saddam's doubles and the other the last
day of mohammed atta--the latter I thought made Falling Man's section
on one of the hijackers pretty weak in comparison--delillo told us
what we already knew about these guys; amis' take on atta was up there
w/ the best of 9/11 fiction, one could argue the best as it retains a
mysteriousness about the shit percolating under human events that no
writer has been able to match.

http://www.martinamisweb.com/documents/lastdays_two.pdf

delillo shouldn't feel bad--i kept on thinking about all he wrote
about terrorism in the weeks after 9/11, still smelling the sickly
stench of burning plastic and god knows what else that permeated the
air in Manhattan for months. (staring at the Underworld cover didn't
help) he was in a word ahead of the game

'terrorism is the act of being noticed' or words to that effect in Mao
II. delillo noticed alot earlier than most

rich

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Michael
Bailey<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Taking a minute off from reviewing thoughts about AtD,
> and reaffirming that I cribbed certain of your thoughts, even during the
> Iceland section, and ignored certain others that were at least as interesting...
>
> anyway, I haven't read anything but The Information.
> My "good-book-dar" (sort of like gay-dar, I mean) alerted me to it
> on a library bookstore shelf (sorry, not full price)
>
> there's some really enjoyable prose in there.
> some nice twists and turns.  a wonderful
> compare/contrast about writers, poets and playwrights...
> a likeable auctorial aside
>
> I'd like to read more of his stuff sometime in the not too distant future.
>
> everyone probably knows he's good, just thought I'd share.
>
>
> --
> "Furthermore, in the postmodern usage of Menippean satire it is
> considered appropriate to abbreviate concepts, but not to omit
> articles." - Keith
>