Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[Keith Davis]

The man in the boat is Trump? You may have just ruined me for life....kd

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> On Apr 1, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> LOL - yes - 
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> Becky 
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>> On Apr 1, 2020, at 6:50 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> and that man will be Trump, Becky
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>> rich
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>> 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.  
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>> Becky 
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>>>> On Apr 1, 2020, at 9:31 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> rich
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>>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:05 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I should have said white western MALE authors
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> Same reason McCarthy, Kundera, Stoppard and indeed TRP are unlikely to
>>>>> win it this year.
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>>>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> »richly«, yes?
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>>>>>> Am Mi., 1. Apr. 2020 um 16:53 Uhr schrieb rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com
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>>>>>> https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserves-the-nobel-23926
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>>>>>>> Why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel
>>>>>>> GERALD HOWARD <https://www.bookforum.com/contributor/gerald-howard>
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>>>>>>> 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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