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When I think of Oct. 25, 1986—Game 6 of the Mets-Red Sox World Series—I think of crushing disappointment, intense rivalries, and die hard fans. However, this image is quite different from what “Game 6” screenwriter Don DeLillo, author of the novels “White Noise” and “Underworld” had in mind...
...terms of more contemporary authors, Bloom said “there’s no question about it, we have four first-class novelists writing at the moment,” Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Cormack McCarthy, whose Blood Meridian he said was “so savage and splendid there’s been nothing as good since Faulkner...
...absurdities of a superfast, superficial society. Kunzru's gift is that he can relate with equal authority how unbalanced things are today in London, Brussels, Delhi or suburban California-where, he writes, "Anyone on foot ... is one of four things: poor, foreign, mentally ill or jogging." Like Don DeLillo, the great American novelist whom he admires, Kunzru is part of a modern breed of fiction writers who double up as cultural critics, describing the tastes, sounds and sights that constitute the experience of being alive in 2004 while providing mordant insights into how our experiences are relentlessly manipulated by advertising...
Wood follows a precedent for literary celebrity that comes through reviewing rather than writing fiction. Known for his thorough analysis and his unwavering stance in the face of greats (Pynchon, DeLillo and Updike have all felt the brunt of his pen), Wood, 37, has been called the last “true” critic. He himself agrees that broader, contextualized criticism—which not only evaluates literature but espouses a theory of art—is less prevalent in these times. The English department, then, has snatched up one of a dying breed...
...snifter, he prefers his eggshell button-down Oxford and tastefully tartan tie from J. Press. One day, his American Government degree will land him a stint in London negotiating real estate deals, a yacht named after his childhood golden retriever Sebastian and a wife as well versed in Don DeLillo and Michael Ondaatje as she is in Neiman Marcus heritage homewares for their house in the Hamptons...