White Noise is funny and has much flair. It is interesting/odd that DeLillo becomes this lightening conductor for ire when he explores many of the areas po-mo readers like. Libra, Mao II, are both brilliant and troubling works. I guess there is a line that some felt he crossed with Underworld - too big, too ambitious, too chippy, who is he to try and explain the last fifty years in a sprawling American epic with baseball as a metaphor? Get back in your box Don!
I liked it.
Recently Dissensus has been full of sneering as if nothing is good enough, everything has been chopped down to size. As if nothing good has been created except some niche genre only you know. The cynicism does no one any good.
This isn’t really a defence of Don - like him/don’t like him but do like something and fucking celebrate it - stop being so fucking negative. It’s too easy and far too tiring. (Sorry last night I can go to the pub for a month and I’m tired.)