Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Keith Davis]

Anyone want to take over single-daddy duties while i catch up?....


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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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