Praise for Great Jones Street:
"Brilliant . . . deeply shocking . . . [DeLillo] looks at rock music, nihilism and urban decay."
—Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books
"Luminous . . . finally, a novel that understands rock and roll!"
—Jon Pareles, The Village Voice
"DeLillo has the force and imagination of Thomas Pynchon or John Barth, with a sense of proportion and style which these would-be giants often lack."
—Irish Times
"[A] wild comic [vision] of a post-’60s America as medieval hellscape."
—Vulture
Reading Don DeLillo, the cult novelist who ascended to literary superstardom, can be a tense, exhausting experience. The universes he creates for us are threatening, chaotic, and mercurial. There are few happy people in them, and fewer happy accidents. Suspicious of society and institutions and overstuffed with reference, allusion, and wordplay, his novels are equal […]
The National Book Foundation has announced that Don DeLillo will receive its 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards on November 18. Previous recipients of this lifetime achievement award include Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Ray Bradbury, and Toni Morrison. This means it’s the perfect time to dig into DeLillo’s […]