Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[Becky Lindroos]

LOL - yes - 

Becky 

> On Apr 1, 2020, at 6:50 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> and that man will be Trump, Becky
> 
> rich
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 2:25 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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