Fwd: Bleeding Edge

[Mark Kohut]

I know it was not an insult. But I, personally, do not think what you offer
is
the reason. Literary types in journalism are aware and love fiction with
against the grain 'theories'.

I've seen stuff on Susan Sontag's words about that
event; Denis Johnson's war contrasts. Others. Pynchon is so respected
even by those who don't read him--and shallowly respected for his paranoia
in his fiction---paranoia is what conspiracy theories ride on---that if
they saw
*Bleeding Edge* as a 9/11 novel it would have gotten mentioned, I suggest.
They don't. And, I will remind, Tom and Melanie controlled the way his work
was
presented by this time in his career. For whatever reason, no accent on
THAT anywhere
in the marketing of this novel, I daresay.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 6:16 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> My reply to rich wasn't meant insultingly at all. The idea behind it was
> that some of the characters in the book support theories that might not
> seem appropriate to journalists writing about the topic of 9/11 in fiction.
>
> Am 11.09.2021 um 00:02 schrieb David Morris:
> > Sorry,  I’d meant my email to go to the whole list.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 5:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge
> > To: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> >
> >
> > That you “don’t find curious at all” something that Rich does find
> curious
> > *seems*, at best, a pretty useless comment, and, is more easily can be
> seen
> > as an insultingly comment.  If you had a useful point, it’s hard to find
> it…
> >
> > Maybe that feeling on my part is because I can imagine all kinds of 9-11
> > possible connections to BE.  And, after all, TRP does live in NYC.  Of
> > course TRP ain’t a mainstream author, but he’s also a kind of a cult
> > celebrity.
> >
> > David Morris
>
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