Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Keith Davis]

BTW, The Names is great American fiction. DeLillo is wonderful. Thirty
years old, and frighteningly prescient...


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll get back to you when I stop laughing...
>
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How's the pay?
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>> On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Keith Davis wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>>
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