Another year, another Nobel Prize in Literature not given to Don DeLillo. At The New Republic, Alex Shephard argues that DeLillo should have been a contender:
…of all the leading American Nobel candidates, DeLillo is a writer of the moment. In an essay published three months after the September 11 attacks, Don DeLillo wrote that the problem the American writer faced in this brave new world was deceptively simple: “The narrative ends in the rubble.” If one sentence sums up post-9/11 American life, that is certainly a contender.
