Re: 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature: Gunter Grass
Cecilia A. Baader (cbaader@my-Deja.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:35:23 -0700
What an odd coincidence...
Not many days after reading your post, Bruce, my mother, who likes to buy books for me that are labeled "Literature," handed me the 1984 O. Henry Short Story Awards compilation, containing, you guessed it, "To Jerome..."
What an excellent story. I laughed out loud more than once.
As to old Gunter, did anyone read his short story in this week's _The New Yorker_? I forget the name, but it's excellent, about a group of former Nazi propagandists who get together in one of those post WWII gatherings to talk about the war. A point of view, so to speak, that I've never seen before. I wasn't entirely comfortable with it, as a matter of fact darn uncomfortable, but I was riveted nonetheless.
Regards,
Cecilia
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:37:41 citycabn wrote:
>Damn, Gordon Lish is proved right once again!
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>In his longish short story, titled "For Jerome, with Love and Kisses,"
>written in the supposed voice of Sol Salinger to his son, Sol needles Jerome
>about his abandonment of the perfectly good names Jerome David for the
>initials JD. Sol says something along the lines of: "What *is* a JD? How
>do you expect the King of Sweden to give the Nobel Prize to a JD; it's not
>even a real name."
>
>--Bruce
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: D. <darjr@shore.net>
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
>Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 4:22 AM
>Subject: 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature: Gunter Grass
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>>Just announced . . . .
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