Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Keith Davis]

This thread is why I'm on this list! Turns out I'm way behind on my
reading: Wise Blood, USA, Beloved, Light In August...Rock on, P-listers.


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would think so.
>
>  Did Jane Bowles ever read it? She must have
>
>
>
> On May 5, 2013, at 4:43 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>
> And if you're going to nominate that, how about Nightwood by Djuna Barnes?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> Cc: Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com>; Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>;
> kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, May 4, 2013 6:06 pm
> Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
>
>  Miss Macintosh, My Darling
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Great selections from the women!
> > Another swing back to another male: Dos Passos for USA.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Flannery O'Connor for Wise Blood.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yes to those Laura mentioned plus:
> >>>
> >>> Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence
> >>> Toni Morrison for Beloved
> >>>  Zora Neale Hurston for Their Eyes Were Watching God
> >>> Kate Chopin for The Awakening
> >>> Pearl Buck for The Good Earth
> >>> Jane Smiley for The Greenlanders
> >>> Alice Walker for The Color Purple
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Bekah
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On May 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > My Antonia - Willa Cather
> >>> > The Dollmaker - Harriet Arnow
> >>> > To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (much beloved, though lacking in
> >>> > subtext)
> >>> >
> >>> > Haven't read Edith Wharton, so don't know if she belongs.
> >>> >
> >>> > Personally, I think Gatsby doesn't hold up in this day and age. If
> >>> > anything, the impending, glitzed up Luhrman (sounds like lurid) confirms
> my
> >>> > opinion.
> >>> >
> >>> > Laura
> >>> > -----Original Message-----
> >>> > From: alice wellintown
> >>> > Sent: May 4, 2013 2:36 PM
> >>> > To: pynchon -l
> >>> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
> >>> >
> >>> > Say Fell-uzz, howz about puttin a lady on, dat dare list use is may
> >>> > kin? Aint we got nothin to say what use boys finds worthy of readin wit he
> >>> > same set of eyes as use read wit when all those macho authors is
> concerned?
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:
> >>> > Covers my take on Gatsby:
> >>> > http://skreened.com/daydream/ain-t-no-party-like-a-gatsby-party
> >>> >
> >>> > And where's Papa?
> >>> >
> >>> > I'd need more contemplating time to make a list....
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Lolita
> >>> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
> >>> > From: kelber at mindspring.com
> >>> > Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> >>> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 11:23:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
> >>> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >>> > ReplyTo: kelber at mindspring.com
> >>> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
> >>> >
> >>> > USA - Dos Passos
> >>> >
> >>> > LK
> >>> > -----Original Message-----
> >>> > From: David Morris
> >>> > Sent: May 4, 2013 11:20 AM
> >>> > To: Mark Kohut
> >>> > Cc: alice wellintown , pynchon -l
> >>> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
> >>> >
> >>> > A faulty list doesn't include Faulkner.  And I don't think All the
> >>> > King's Men fits this league.
> >>> >
> >>> > On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
> >>> > Great American Novels:
> >>> > Moby Dick
> >>> > Huck Finn
> >>> > The Great Gatsby
> >>> > The Scarlet Letter
> >>> > The Grapes of Wrath (?)...does anyone ever reread?
> >>> > All the King's Men
> >>> > Portrait of a Lady
> >>> > Invisible Man
> >>> > Augie March or Herzog?
> >>> > Gravity's Rainbow
> >>> > Against the Day
> >>> >
> >>> > 11 of a top 10 list...(I guess Steinbeck would have to be dropped but
> >>> > that feels not just to the Joads.
> >>> >
> >>> > Argue and creat your own list, Plisters.....
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >
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>


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