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

[alice wellintown]

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On Monday, April 29, 2013, Jeff Sunbury wrote:

> 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.
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM, <malignd at aol.com <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', 'malignd at aol.com');>> wrote:
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>> Not current no longer but Mr. Sammler's Planet is pretty damn good.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'richard.romeo at gmail.com');>>
>> To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', 'alicewellintown at gmail.com');>>
>> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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
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>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM, alice wellintown
>> <alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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.
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>> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:58 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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