tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19981140.post1655361239865200558..comments2023-08-26T11:20:56.026-05:00Comments on B.O.M.M.: The Brief and Wondrous Career of Thom JonesBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09071302507467572886noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19981140.post-56717822363628653632008-09-21T22:11:00.000-05:002008-09-21T22:11:00.000-05:00Good point, Oscar. Junot is an American, growing ...Good point, Oscar. Junot is an American, growing up in New Jersey after all. I think this is at one time an honest, and stupid, mistake on my part. Thanks for pointing that out.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09071302507467572886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19981140.post-88612153131745401572008-09-21T17:02:00.000-05:002008-09-21T17:02:00.000-05:00"would he be called the "American Junot Diaz"?"Not..."would he be called the "American Junot Diaz"?"<BR/><BR/>Not likely since Díaz is an American. Granted, an American with Dominican origins but every bit of an American writer as, say, Charles Simic or Jhumpa Lahiri.OBermeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11850834663002905067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19981140.post-21929457526478572802008-09-20T23:30:00.000-05:002008-09-20T23:30:00.000-05:00Yeah, I enjoyed The Pugilist at Rest. We read it i...Yeah, I enjoyed The Pugilist at Rest. We read it in Roger's Contemp. Prose class last spring. It's one of my favorite books from that class. I haven't read much Junot Dias (as you know, I don't own a copy of Drown or his novel), so I can't really compare the two, but I certainly think he's up there.Bronsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01094703386841613309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19981140.post-59025057948081598362008-09-20T22:28:00.000-05:002008-09-20T22:28:00.000-05:00We did read "I Want to Live!" and that damn thing ...We did read "I Want to Live!" and that damn thing still makes me squirm. It both intensifies my fear of death, and the want to own a banty rooster named Mr. Barnes.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09071302507467572886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19981140.post-15084785735092789412008-09-20T14:03:00.000-05:002008-09-20T14:03:00.000-05:00I think we read Thom Jones in Contemporary Prose.....I think we read Thom Jones in Contemporary Prose...from that Best American Stories of the Century. Didn't we read his story "I Want To Live!" Man, what a story!Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15810886336623723914noreply@blogger.com