New DeLillo

[Mark Thibodeau]

Really? While Delillo's style has definitely changed since Underworld, I
wouldn't say his late novels are without style.

For instance, I think his two latest, Point Omega and Zero K, are fairly
bursting with style, and are very much worthy of his legacy.

Jerky

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:40 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> one major difference I see in the later works of both is that Delillo
> abandoned his signature writing style after Underworld, his voice if you
> will; I think Pynchon never lost his. For all of Bleeding Edge's faults, to
> write like that in his 70s is probably the most impressive thing about it.
>
> THere's not much to hang onto from The Body Artist on with DD. minimalism i
> was never a fan of.
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:40 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> 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
> >>
> >> > 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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> >> >>
> >> > --
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> >>
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