[Mark Kohut]

Nice seeding of reality vs. appearance universal subjectTheme. Life
vs. Mediation of life. Point Omega (and others) partly born out of
this experience, doncha think?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:31 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> Cc: Joe Allonby; pynchon -l; Mark Kohut
>> 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
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>> Sent: Aug 27, 2015 4:31 PM
>>
>> To: kelber at mindspring.com
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>> Cc: Joe Allonby , pynchon -l , Mark Kohut
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>> 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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