NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm forPOINTOMEGA

[Mark Kohut]

Vanity Fair was there.....
BookCourt    http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2010/02/12/brooklyns-date-with-don-delillo-a-reading-of-point-omega.html 



--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
> Subject: Re: NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm forPOINTOMEGA
> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Bekah" <bekker2 at mac.com>, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 1:52 PM
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> "Satantango" is
> an experience. I would be easier to 
> do on home video. 
> I've seen
> "24-Hour Psycho" -- well, about 20 
> minutes of it at a museum -- and that helped me
> connect to Point Omega 
> right away.
> 
>   ----- Original Message
> ----- 
>   From: 
>   rich
> 
>   To: Thomas
> Beshear 
>   Cc: Bekah ; Mark Kohut ;
> pynchon -l 
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>   Sent: Friday,
> February 12, 2010 1:35 
>   PM
>   Subject: Re: NP
> BookCourt don delillo is 
>   reading here tonight at 7pm forPOINTOMEGA
>   
> he didn't last, neither did we. but it was great
> anyway. BAM 
>   made the rather dumb decision to have the movie start at
> like 5pm on a Sunday 
>   (w/ an intermission)--doubt many people stayed till the
> end, 2am or 
>   thereabouts
> 
> rich
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>   On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:18
> AM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
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>   wrote:
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>     Did he stay till the
> end? I watched it on video 
>     a couple years ago -- amazing movie, tho' I prefer
> Wreckmeister Harmonies, 
>     which, at 2:20 minutes, is a distillation of his
> technique, plus I like that 
>     story better. The opening scene in the bar, where a
> young man uses patrons 
>     to create a model of the solar system, is one of the
> most beautiful in world 
>     cinema.
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>       ----- 
>       Original Message ----- 
>       From:
> 
>       rich 
>       To:
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>       Bekah 
>       Cc:
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>       Mark Kohut ; pynchon -l
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>       Sent:
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>       Friday, February 12, 2010 9:58 AM
>       Subject:
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>       Re: NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight
> at 7pm for 
>       POINTOMEGA
>       
> 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:
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>       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:
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>         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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