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DDS Newsletter

annlongmuir74 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:23:03 GMT

Hi folks, I'm still looking for contributions for the next DDS newsletter. In particular, I'd be interested in the following: --Review of recent critical work

Re: The Names book club

Jacqueline Zubeck — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:22:34 GMT

The subject is DD's drama.

Re: The Names book club

Nancy Chase — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:37:39 GMT

Yes, what's the reference to the Louisville conference? Who knows details? Thanks, Nancy Chase ... Yes, Tap is someone that James taps in to... but he's a

Re: DDS Business Meeting at ALA (5/22/09) cancelled

Paul Giaimo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:49:54 GMT

What business was there to discuss ? : ) ... From: Marni Gauthier Subject: [delillo_society] DDS Business Meeting at ALA (5/22/09)

Re: The Names book club

Wade Lewis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:10:23 GMT

I like that Tap may be a symbol of writing itself, and see Volterra as the same for film. I love the way he explores film making as a process by exposing the

Re: The Names book club

Wade Lewis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:07:31 GMT

Hi Jackie (and thanks for the paper, it arrived today!) I feel that it's only really James who sees a chance of a reconciliation. Kathryn alwasy seems to me as

Re: some findings from the delillo archive

Wade Lewis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:05:11 GMT

Hi Paul Thanks, I think I see where you're going with that. James is always (at least early on in the book), trying to see himself through Kathryn, and in his

Re: some findings from the delillo archive

Wade Lewis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:00:41 GMT

Hi Hunter This is very cool, and will be a great addition to my book club discussion! Cheers Wade

Re: The Names book club

Paul Giaimo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:29:48 GMT

Hi Jackie The "end" of the Names is also the beginning of a search into language, as related in the voice of Axton when he sees his friends "the second time

Re: The Names book club

Jacqueline Zubeck — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:51:11 GMT

Yes, Tap is someone that James taps in to... but he's a writer himself, and not the "hack" that James is. I think that at the point that James and Tap travel

Re: The Names book club

Paul Giaimo — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:38:52 GMT

True. It seems open at the end aobut whether someday they will meet again- maybe I am looking at it a bit too meta-fictionally, but it seems like Tap is also a

Re: The Names book club

Jacqueline Zubeck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:59:49 GMT

I think that there's a promise of a reconciliation between Katherine and Axton... when he becomes aware that the cult is not just a language puzzle and that

Amazons by Cleo Birdwell

iwsebastian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:00:31 GMT

Has anyone read Amazons? Apparently DeLillio used the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. A very funny, dark comic novel. I wonder why he chose to publish this under a

Re: The Names book club

Paul Giaimo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:20:48 GMT

Hi Wade Here's a few questions for a book club For some reading club discussion questions, I thought that the failed reconciliation between Axton and

Re: some findings from the delillo archive

Paul Giaimo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:33:45 GMT

Hunter this is impressive ! Your finding suggests DeLillo's inspiration for the Ta Onomata cult. For some reading club discussion questions, I thought