Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[Becky Lindroos]

Can you imagine a book by DeLillo based on the C-virus?   Think themes of paranoia and fear and media along with some consumerism and so on - the usual suspects.  A man is adrift in a yacht while the pandemic rages. He has some satellite communication when it doesn’t go out.  Switch from those scenes to scenes of semi-chaos in NYC or Italy or Iran or China.  ??   - I can see D’s head spinning out on the possibilities.  

Becky 

> On Apr 1, 2020, at 9:31 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> there's no arguing that but man was Peter Handke a terrible choice. Delillo
> probably doesnt much care. Hopefully we get one more book from him. He said
> he was writing something that takes place 3 yrs hence but who knows now
> with covid--I'm guessing our current dilemma has upended a number of
> projects
> 
> rich
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:05 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I should have said white western MALE authors
>> 
>> And with good reason - we can all compile our own list of great writers
>> who didn’t receive the Nobel, and women are particularly underrepresented.
>> John Galsworthy but not Virginia Woolf?
>> 
>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think De Lillo deserves it but I also think the Nobel committee are
>>> likely conscious of over representing white Western authors, so I doubt he
>>> will win it this year, especially as Handke was awarded it in 2019.
>>> 
>>> Same reason McCarthy, Kundera, Stoppard and indeed TRP are unlikely to
>>> win it this year.
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> »richly«, yes?
>>>> 
>>>> Am Mi., 1. Apr. 2020 um 16:53 Uhr schrieb rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com
>>>>> :
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserves-the-nobel-23926
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel
>>>>> GERALD HOWARD <https://www.bookforum.com/contributor/gerald-howard>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you find it as obvious as I do that Don DeLillo richly deserves to
>>>>> receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? And right away, as in this year?
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