Re: JCO: RE: Nobel Prize

Hi, Steve. Yeah, we're not very popular right now. But perhaps JCO's
portrayals of US culture -- warts and all -- might appeal to the judges. (PS:
technically, Bellow was Canadian, though his writing is thoroughly Usonian -- to
use Frank Lloyd Wright's precise designation for all things pertaining to the
USA.)
Cyrano

In a message dated 10/14/2005 3:44:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jandsmerritt@earthlink.net writes:

<< Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I don't think that any Americans will win the
literature prize while the Iraq war is still going on. I'm reminded of how
Steinbeck won shortly before the U.S. got heavily involved in Vietnam, and
then no American won until Bellow did right after the Vietnam war ended.
Stay healthy, JCO!

Steve
>>
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