9/11 Novels

Keith Davis kbob42 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 00:13:08 CST 2013


Yes, it is.

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On Mar 1, 2013, at 6:40 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> Netherland by Joseph O'Neill is often grouped with the 9/11 novels.  It's pretty damn good.
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> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: ā€œpynchon-l at waste.or 
> gā€œ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 10:09 am
> Subject: 9/11 Novels
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> following recent thread, I'm not sure there has been a really good
> 9/11-themed novel. of course Delillo wrote 9/11 novels before 9/11 and
> then decided to write a 9/11 novel after and even Falling Man was a
> real bland effort. tackling it head on like that as david morris noted
> is not a good idea. it's still too fresh and too big an event to do
> that.
> I did like Matt Ruff's the Mirage, alternate universe take on 9/11
> 
> 
> rich
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