2010 National Book Awards Winners Announced
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 11:00:43 CST 2010
forget the nostalgic hippie punk lefty inherent vice bullshit
better read about international
finance/banking/terrorism-counterinsurgency if you want to know
something worth knowing so you know who yr enemies are, folks
lovingly
rich
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
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