IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

[rich]

Coover is writing a sequel to the Brunists--one excerpt in Harpers
recently (White Bread Jesus think its called) I found very disturbing
(but w/ Coover that's a good thing--he hasn't lost any of the sting
which much 'postmodern' writing has lost diluted into mathematics, emo
mopery and cheap nihilism)

On 10/2/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> And don't you all forget his first so-interesting look at.....religios
> belief and so much more before he had Nixon to kick around: The Origin of
> the Brunists.
>
> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
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>> From: Page <page at quesnelbc.com>
>> Subject: Re: IVIV (8): The Two Nixons
>> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, "Dave Monroe"
>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 9:13 PM
>> rich is right. It is wonderful, so
>> put it on your list. Coover is one of the
>> best lesser- known great American authors.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: IVIV (8): The Two Nixons
>>
>>
>> > there's robert coover loose trilogy about Nixon--The
>> Public Burning,
>> > Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears
>> (Nixon as a
>> > fighter for union labor and a horndog) and the
>> wonderfully deranged A
>> > Political Fable written in 68 yr of Nixon's
>> election-aka The Cat in
>> > the Hat for President.
>> >
>> > Coover's Journal during the writing of the Public
>> Burning is very
>> > interesting reading partly due to the sheer effort
>> that Coover made to
>> > keep up with all the new information emerging from
>> watergate and the
>> > research where he had to write all his notes in long
>> hand at places
>> > like the British Library
>> > Beyond that, tho Coover skewers Nixon (like Uncle
>> Sam's sodomizing of
>> > same at the end of the book, or Nixon's liaison at
>> Sing Sing with
>> > Ethel Rosenberg or Hoover in drag, or the apocalyptic
>> party at Times
>> > Square where the Rosenbergs are pubicly eltrocuted--
>> its very funny),
>> > Nixon comes across as oddly sympathetic thruout the
>> book as an
>> > outsized outsider within Eisenhower's administration
>> > I wish more folks would read it.  its wonderful
>> >
>> > rich
>> >
>> > rich
>> >
>> > On 9/30/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dave Monroe
>> >> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> "the two Nixons"
>> >>
>> >> Bilocation?
>> >>
>> >
>>
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