9/11 Novels

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 21:07:06 CST 2013


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On 3/2/13, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, it is.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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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.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>>
>> 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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