Don DeLillo
The Stubborn, Inward Gaze of the Post-9/11 Novel
Why Don't Novelists Care about Katrina?
On "Men With Balls"
Don DeLillo’s 2007 novel Point Omega begins with an anonymous man, standing in the Museum of Modern Art, watching Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho, which stretches the Hitchcock film to diurnal length, turning mere frames into emergent stories. “Suspense is trying to build,” DeLillo writes, “but the silence and stillness outlive it.” READ MORE >>
Against Beauty
The Moody Blues
The Black Veil: A Memoir With Digressions by Rick Moody (Little, Brown, 288 pp., $24.95) Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation. READ MORE >>
Tighter and Tighter
The Haunting of L. By Howard Norman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 326 pp., $24) READ MORE >>
Abhorring a Vacuum
I. READ MORE >>