[rich]

DeLillo: I really liked *Mean Streets*. I grew up in the Bronx and Scorsese
in Lower Manhattan, in Little Italy, but we shared the same language, the
same accents and the same behaviours. Needless to say I was familiar with
troublemakers like Robert De Niro's character, I even knew some of them
very well. But the most significant experience probably dates back further.
I was very young when I saw *Marty* by Delbert Mann, which takes place
where I used to live, in the Italian part of the Bronx. The film was shown
in Manhattan, so there were eight of us guys, packed in a car to go and
watch it. The opening scene takes place in Arthur Avenue. It was our place!
Seeing our street, the shops we patronized, there in a movie theatre, that
was amazing. It was as if our very existence was acknowledged. We never
would have thought that somebody would make a film in those streets.

being a full-fledged NYC guinea, well, Delillo resonates. The Sopranos
would be my equivalent

rich

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:16 PM, <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it's definitely more of a people caught up in mass events kind of
> deal. Less so end zone which is more tongue in cheek even than the rest of
> his stuff.
>
> Love the interview where DD talks about reading the paper and, seeing the
> pairing of the two headlines, concludes immediately that they're
> inextricably, arcanely linked with one another. I like to think this
> happens to him about a hundred times a day
>
> On Aug 27, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Erik Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's about baseball, but it's really about so much more than that. DeLillo
> knows how to squeeze sports for full value (see also End Zone and Amazons,
> not to mention the stadium wedding scene in Mao II)
>
> Now I want to read Underworld again!
>
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> From: kelber at mindspring.com
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> To: Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com>
> Cc: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Mark
> Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:
>
> Based on everyone's feedback, I'm ready to give it a try. Didn't know
> about the prologue vs body of book. Thanks, all.
>
> Laura
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>
> From: Jemmy Bloocher
>
> Sent: Aug 27, 2015 4:31 PM
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> To: kelber at mindspring.com
>
> Cc: Joe Allonby , pynchon -l , Mark Kohut
>
> Subject: Re:
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>
>
> That pretty much sums up my reaction to sports of all kinds, yet I enjoyed
> Underworld (on the second attempt) so you never know...
> On 27 Aug 2015 17:43, "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> I don't like baseball. Pretty much any sport bores the shit out of me.
> Should I attempt Underworld?
> Laura
>
> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do not seem to see as much attention to it as a Great book compared
> to many others, even Delillo's others.
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read it when it was first published. I enjoyed it, but then again I
> like
> > baseball.
> >
> > Now that I think about it, it is one of the few books that I have
> initially
> > thought great that I have never reread.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Melissa Harrison ‏@M_Z_Harrison  12m12 minutes ago
> >>
> >> Rachel Kushner’s Guardian piece on DeLillo’s UNDERWORLD makes me
> >> wonder if I should have another (third) go at reading the bastard.
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