NP - Gaddis

[Mark Thibodeau]

So no help on the "who's bad-mouthing Gaddis" front? I'm genuinely curious.

YOPJ

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:32 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:

> Frolic is worth reading just for the judge’s long decision about the lost
> dog. My attorney friends loved it.
>
> On Jul 14, 2017, at 7:02 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Very nice. Now I need to get around to reading Frolic.
>
> On Jul 14, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Apropos of Gaddis not being trashed, here is an appreciation of A Frolic
> Of His Own:
>
> http://www.themillions.com/2016/06/william-gaddis-and-
> american-justice.html
>
> Maybe someone else already shared this -- if so, apologies.
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Who is trashing Gaddis?! Particularly "beyond the idiot Franzen"?!
>>
>>
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>> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The New Yorker just had a long piece on Texas and it's politics, some
>>> harbinger of the future of America with its starved and obscene, religious
>>> wing nuts, ad infinitum.
>>> Gaddis was and remains for me  a refreshing cudgel upon the heads of
>>> such rampant stupidity and malice but reading the article leads one to
>>> think it's gotten even worse.
>>> It's funny how often Gaddis gets trashed now beyond the idiot Franzen.
>>> Yet no one has reached the heights WG landed in just 4 novels.
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've spent the past couple of years feeling like one of those halfwit
>>>> monks described in The Swerve. This is the first period of time I've had to
>>>> read something big on the ever expanding list.
>>>>
>>>> Given how hard it was to find for so long, I'm certain not everyone has
>>>> The Recognitions, so I wanted to share the moment when I believe I may have
>>>> fallen in love....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Your father's father, she corrected him sharply, but her voice broke,
>>>> almost bitter as she looked away, not for the death of her brother but to
>>>> insinuate that he had abandoned her in this bondage of mortality. She
>>>> talked to Wyatt familiarly of death, as though to take him with her would
>>>> be the kindest expression of her love for him possible: still, she never
>>>> spoke directly of death, never named it so, but continued to treat it with
>>>> the euphemistic care reserved elsewhere for obscenity.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It sets up like Bierce, and then the punchline is not another artfully
>>>> engineered clause or sentence - it's ONE word.
>>>>
>>>> It gives me wood......
>>>>
>>>> love,
>>>>
>>>> cfa
>>>>
>>>
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