Library of America

[Mark Kohut]

As I did continue.......I think all of DeLillo, as with the All of Everyone
else, will be published in the LOA.

These are just the first two. The more of these they sell the more money
they have to do all they do....
These would be first for that reason...

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 5:18 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh I thought it was comprehensive & chronological, instead it's a best-of
> approximation.
>
> Which is fine, even though I am not a great fan of White Noise. There is a
> lot of really good work before that  including Americana, Running Dog,
> Great Jones Street, End Zone and Ratner's Star. I do really like The Names,
> and Libra is a masterpiece especially if you are at all given to
> "conspiracies".
>
> Amazons, too, is worth it.
>
> A-and Underworld, well that will stand among the best of the century. Just
> different and majestic.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 22:07 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The volumes would have been, I suggest: V, Lot 49 and GR....(GR shorter by
>> far than Underworld and so)
>> Vineland, Slow Learner and M& D.  Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. The few
>> non-fiction pieces MIGHT be here too BUT
>> since never collected, I doubt it. This might be the reason a couple
>> pretty
>> major stories of Roth's are NOT in his LOA editions.
>> Never in a book.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 4:47 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello Back---
>> >
>> > The LOA "philosophy" is, usually ,to do all, almost all, of an author.
>> The
>> > original model was the French Plieade editions. I was tangentially
>> "there"
>> > due to a boss who thought this pup was smart enough to be asked
>> questions.
>> > This American pup did not even know of the French Plieade editions,
>> lol...
>> >
>> https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/books/reading-and-writing-an-american-pleiade.html?searchResultPosition=1
>> >
>> >
>> > All that a writer wants to call his "Collected Work" if that person,
>> > as Roth was and DeLillo is, is still alive.  Preparing and publishing
>> such
>> > a prolific writer all at once is not optimal for sales. Library budgets
>> > are annual, so........I cannot imagine not continuing with DeLillo.
>> >
>> > They take a lot of work and money to get done.
>> >
>> > It is my circumstantial-evidence-only opinion that Pynchon has rejected,
>> > will continue to reject, any LOA treatment..Or else he would have
>> > been there before some we know. Remember when Candida got* Gravity's
>> > Rainbow* into the elite Everyman's Library editions---catalogued
>> > and everything---then Tom left her for Melanie and that edition never
>> ever
>> > appeared.(I'll bet this was part of Tom's unhappiness with Candida, who
>> was
>> > a force beyond her writers sometimes.... Remember when V was a Modern
>> > Library edition---I have
>> > that edition and is the one I finished it with---until it wasn't? I'll
>> bet
>> > Tom killed that too....
>> >
>> > For similar reasons for why he would never give a Nobel speech, he does
>> > not want his fiction in such elite-segregated form, imo.
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 3:42 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello all
>> >>
>> >> I've been reading the first LoA volume of Don DeLillo's 80s novels (a
>> >> second volume covering the 90s will be out later this year). I would
>> agree
>> >> it is the high point of DD's career overall, but I wonder if the two
>> >> volumes will be it. Which also leads me to wonder whether Pynchon will
>> be
>> >> so presented in future (fwiw, I think it may be hard to form a
>> collection
>> >> for those writers who have written several large novels like Pynchon or
>> >> Gaddis)
>> >> I do intend to next read the Portis LoA collection discussed here
>> >> previously.
>> >>
>> >> rich
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