Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[David Morris]

How's the pay?

On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Keith Davis wrote:

> Anyone want to take over single-daddy duties while i catch up?....
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> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Would think so.
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>  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:
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> And if you're going to nominate that, how about Nightwood by Djuna Barnes?
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> -----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
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> 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.
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> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Flannery O'Connor for Wise Blood.
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> >> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yes to those Laura mentioned plus:
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> >>> 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
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> >>>
> >>> Bekah
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> >>> On May 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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> >>> > 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?
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
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