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

[Bekah]

Lots of authors write contemporary New York and yes I enjoyed  "Lush Life" quite a lot.   I think  my personal favorite (except DeLillo) is Mark Helprin's  "Winter's Tale."  Helprin's recent "Sunlight and Shadows"  is really enjoyable where he describes post WWII New York - lots of nostalgia there,  romantic,  not a word of irony in the whole book but the prose gets a bit overdone.    I also thoroughly enjoyed Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.   

Fwiw,  Delillo also wrote New York in Great Jones Street,  Cosmopolis,   Falling Man and the first part of Point Omega as well as into bits of other novels. 

Bekah

On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com> 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> wrote:
> 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>
> 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
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> 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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