Wood vs. Tanner on Paranoid Plots & Camus and Conrad and James too

[Jeff Sunbury]

I've never been to New York, but Richard Price's 'Lush Life' describes
cross-sectional social strata of Lower East Side better than I'd ever want
to experience IRL. Cut as fine as a cytologic specimen.


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> Not current no longer but Mr. Sammler's Planet is pretty damn good.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:05 pm
> Subject: Re: Wood vs. Tanner on Paranoid Plots & Camus and Conrad and
> James too
>
>  just asking ma'am for you to give some examples of other current
> writers who have written about New York City as perceptively as
> DeLillo. not talking about travel lit, fiction
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Rich,
> >
> > I'm surprized that youare challanging me on this. As I am sure you are aware
> > many authors of great, very good, or decent prose fiction write excellent
> > travel literature.
> >
> > And then there are those who write travel literature and don't write too
> > much else. These are, again, as I know you are quite aware, published in
> > magazines, journals, and even in newspapers.
> >
> > The best are collected in anthologies, put out by Norton and Cambridge and
> > Oxford and so on.
> >
> > And, of course, there are the authors of history. A selection of passages
> > from the best books about NYC will match anything Pynchon and Dellio have
> > written about the Big Apple.
> >
> > In one of his essays (Slow Learner?) Pynchon mentions literary theft. Well,
> > novelists beg borrow and steal from their non-fiction brothers and sisters
> > all the time. And, while fiction makers may weave these stolen strings and
> > woven mats into grand tapestries, thus altering the original as they do so,
> > though not always improving on them, they often do this not because they are
> > lazy but because they admire the original and recognize its excellence.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:58 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> ms. wellington--
> >>
> >> prove it. who are you talking about?
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:41 PM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> >> > n. In fact, there are lots who do a
> >> > finer job than either Don or Pynchon.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> >
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