Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

Thu Apr 2 08:30:13 UTC 2020

Two early morning remarks. yes, Howard's piece is so .....tandentious when
it is not bullshit.
I remember when he wrote about GR and now, because he edited a DeLillo and
has now reread
*White Noise *it is.....'even over GR"?......

Well, I reread *White Noise *again recently after having read it when
published and I think I know
me some *White Noise and WN *is no GR.........C'mon, folks.......

and, related, only Pynchon that I know of---and I don't know much
here---had the quiet of the aftermath
of 9/11 and now, if a novelist is to try to capture his real social
reality, life on and in the streets.......

The best writer has to write of the empty streets.....yes, those emergency
vehicles sirens' but also I say
the, as I've written 'controversially" the self-organizing wider of so
much, so many in the void of the national
response we should have had.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:36 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >> On Apr 1, 2020, at 10:30 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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> >>>>>>>>
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