New DeLillo

[Erik T. Burns]

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserves-the-nobel-23926

I agree it's a long shot & that if it were to go to an octogenarian white
male American I rather think our TRP more deserving.

That said, both TRP & DD have a solid body of remarkable work, plus a
handful of duds [sorry fanbois], but Gravity's Rainbow is just leagues
beyond all the rest of it, V. is a close second, Mason & Dixon seals the
deal.

DD has Libra and White Noise and Underworld and The Names, all more
"accessible" than TRP, and arguably more "Great American Novelish", not to
mention Americana, End Zone, Running Dog & Ratner's Star.

They work different seams, in different ways, with little in the way of
cross-pollination.

Maybe they could split it.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:32 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given Dylan’s prize is still warm, there’s little chance of that, I’d say.
> It is also the best month for holiday sales of name authors.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jun 10, 2020, at 5:01 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's grand. It's also Nobel Prize timing in the publishing world.
> >
> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 2:50 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> new novel called The Silence slated for October by Scribner
> >> appears to be novella sized, 128 pgs
> >> no details yet
> >>
> >> rich
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