NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT OMEGA

[Bekah]

Re the Prologue to Underworld -   In October or so of 1997 I was in  
the local indie bookstore and there  sat Underworld on the new release  
shelf in all it's aerial grey  glory.  I'd never heard of DeLillo but  
that cover was too much.   I popped it open and started reading.   I  
kept reading right there in the aisle.  I continued reading through  
the Prologue (later Kafko).    Indie prices be hanged.   I bought the  
book,  took it home and indulged for the next week or so in one of the  
most glorious reading experiences I've ever had.     I went on to read  
several of his prior books  (I have a few to go) and all books  
published since.   It was the beginning of my love affair with D.

New short story - no relation to Point Omega :
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/11/30/091130fi_fiction_delillo

Bekah


On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:58 AM, rich wrote:

> never saw DeLillo speak but had something happen that was even  
> better--he sat a few rows away from me at BAM to watch the 7 hour  
> movie Satantango a few yrs back
>
> I will argue with any that the prologue, Pafko at the Wall, from  
> Underworld, ranks among the best writing of the last 25 yrs, in this  
> country
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Bekah <bekker2 at mac.com> wrote:
> Oh I am so green that you get to see and hear DeLillo.    Yes,  I  
> finished Point Omega and enjoyed it more than Cosmopolis,  less than  
> Underworld. (heh) - Kind of like Falling Man but maybe a tad better  
> - hard telling - an interesting addition to his oeuvre though.    I  
> think I enjoyed it more than you appear to.  I was kind of involved  
> in the ideas of anonymity and intimacy as expressed in the  
> settings.   While in NY the characters were very self-involved,  in  
> the desert the film-maker and his subject became close as people.    
> And there was a kind of suspense which ticked through the whole   
> book - never really heavy-duty but always there,  ominous.
>
> Bekah
>
>
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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:42 AM, rich wrote:
>
> finished Point Omega y'day--I wish he wrote about the rumsfeld-like  
> character more--the side story w/ his daughter/filmmaker to me felt  
> pointless, and the whole 24-hour Psycho movie in slo-mo was just  
> laborious. like trying to swallow molasses. nothing to really hold u  
> rapt, its all mind, like having dinner with a drunken and grumpy  
> philosopher of some sort
>
> he writes some fine sentences but all that stripped down musings on  
> film, art, and space/time just too thin to hang all that heavy shit on
>
> so, back to gitta sereny's great book on albert speer
> rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> BookCourt    don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT  
> OMEGA
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> Bekah
> http://tinyurl.com/my-bloggish-thing
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