2010 National Book Awards Winners Announced

[Mark Kohut]

Another Must Read...how'm I ever going to finish reading Shakespeare and 
 Pynchon's
influences....??

On this topic, I saw two sample couplets from the poetry winner go by online
and cannot retrieve now......BOTH had harmonic Pynchon overtones (by that I mean
sorta resonant thematic not necessarily any overt influence)...

One was on feeling loss while ascending......

Other used the concept State citizens pejoratively, that is anti-State, i think, 
with an unusual
aphorism re Time, which was, yes, capped like this........

Another Must Read....

And, I read an early Ms Gordon novel, maybe the first, and I remember a strong 
well-rounded
female protagonist and one theme--which I probably also projected---I'd 
characterize as
an attempt to show us "what (some) women want" per Freud's cry.....subtle alive 
prose
is what I remember.......................... 


----- Original Message ----
From: Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
To: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>; Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 10:47:55 AM
Subject: Re: 2010 National Book Awards Winners Announced

Yes. It's as good as the National Book Awards jury thinks it is.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: 2010 National Book Awards Winners Announced


> OK. Now I have to get the Patti Smith book as soon as I'm done with
> Keef. Anybody read "Just Kids"?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>> National Book Awards - 2010
>> http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2010.html