Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[Becky Lindroos]

He’s lost and doesn’t often get good communications.  

My first thought was that he was not Trump-  more like the guy in Point Omega who is soooo alone and lost.  But with some tones of the guy in Underworld who was watching the Texas Highway Killer on TV with spotty reception.  Only instead of Texas killings,  he’s seeing scenes of life like in Zero K and instead of the screen-shot fighting in the hills of the Middle East he sees the streets of cities plagued with people dying of C-Virus. 

What if he’s denied port wherever he goes and doesn’t ever really know what’s happening? It kind of fits either way - Trump or “everyman.”  The idea seems existentially spooky to me. .

Becky 



> On Apr 1, 2020, at 7:37 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The man in the boat is Trump? You may have just ruined me for life....kd
> 
> Www.keithdavismusic.com
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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
>>> 
>>> 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 
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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
>>>> 
>>>> rich
>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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