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White Noise

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On Saviors and Superheroes: A Conversation with Adam Nemett

  • Rachel Lyon
  • December 10, 2018
Adam Nemett discusses his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL.
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Engdahl’s Game

  • Adam Keller
  • October 14, 2016
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…
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Some Kind of Deft Acceleration

  • Kyle Williams
  • September 12, 2016
Over at the New Yorker, Thomas Beller writes about reading Don DeLillo’s White Noise, with its opening move-in day scene on repeat, and the ways stories change when read again and…
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Where Books Meet Their Ends

  • Jake Slovis
  • May 25, 2016
For the Guardian, Sam Jordison draws parallels between Don DeLillo’s previous novels (White Noise and Omega) and his most recent novel, Zero K: In Point Omega, we’re told: “The true life is not reducible to…
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The Cool Future

  • Kirstin Allio
  • April 28, 2016
“All plots tend to move deathward,” the narrator of “White Noise” says. “This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part…
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Total Noise and Complete Saturation

  • Christine Gosnay
  • April 8, 2016
For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested, in a clinical way, in silence.
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Learning by Listening

  • Jake Slovis
  • March 2, 2016
The Millions staff writer Nick Ripatrazone examines literature that “embraces the power of radio” and highlights the sounds of language: Radio is elegiac. Radio is the theater of the mind: our eyes…
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Taylor Swift’s White Noise

  • Alex Norcia
  • October 24, 2014
Nothing much more needs to be said: At the Atlantic, “the author of White Noise reviews Taylor Swift’s white noise.”
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Examining the Ordinary

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 1, 2014
Stephan Eirik Clark, author of a new novel about artificial sweeteners, Sweetness #9, discusses his fascination with Don DeLillo’s White Noise over at The Atlantic: White Noise, though—it was something…
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The Last Book I Loved: White Noise

  • Bruce Watson
  • March 19, 2012
In the mid-1980s, I fled Ronald Reagan’s America for the jungles of Costa Rica. Before leaving–forever, I thought–I shipped two boxes of paperbacks to the tropics. I would soon read…
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The Urgent Matter of Books

  • Lidia Yuknavitch
  • May 3, 2011
People keep telling me that books are in danger of disappearing. E-books, Kindles, iPads will replace the object of the book as we know it. I’m not worried.
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Bright Lights, Big City and “The Shattering of the Self”

  • Seth Fischer
  • October 4, 2009
“…Jay McInerney’s 1984 publication of Bright Lights allows us excavation to an even earlier level of American self-confusion. The novel’s second-person narrative, which people found so powerfully affecting, cannot be…
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