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

[Mark Kohut]

I think this is an awful write-up. Snark and stupid suppositions. That line about breaking the legs of the woman who fainted---in 'our' minds---is about as mean as it gets and to think DeLillo might leave over that??? 
Why?
Haven't they read him? 

Collective first date!?....and the private writer who appears infrequently 'won't call"?....Gimme a f'in break. An awful conceit imho.

I am very opinionated about such event write-ups. I have been there--in more than one sense. 

Was there anything substantive written here?



--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm forPOINTOMEGA
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 7:11 PM
> 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
> > 
> > 
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > "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 
> >   
> >   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
> > 
> > 
> >   On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:18
> > AM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
> > 
> >   wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >     
> >     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.
> >     
> >     
> >     
> >     
> >       ----- 
> >       Original Message -----
> 
> >       From:
> > 
> >       rich 
> >       To:
> > 
> >       Bekah 
> >       Cc:
> > 
> >       Mark Kohut ; pynchon
> -l
> > 
> >       Sent:
> > 
> >       Friday, February 12,
> 2010 9:58 AM
> >       Subject:
> > 
> >       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:
> > 
> >       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 
> >         
> >         
> >         
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Bekah
> > http://tinyurl.com/my-bloggish-thing
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
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