What prompted this desire for DeLillo is the release of the movie of White Noise, which I’m a bit wary of, which precipitated this article by John Self (whose Twitter feed is one of the few I still furtively read, not being a Twitter user anymore, or not officially anyway) which was enough to tip me nicely over the edge. I have read almost everything by DeLillo (my only omissions are: Ratner’s Star which I thought I would love but have struggled to get past the first 50 pages, and Amazons written under a pseudonym, a novel which DeLillo prefers not to own up to) and there are a core of books which I will happily read and re-read over and over. Since I decided that I wasn’t going to buy any books for a year, my motivation to read from the backlog has fizzled out and instead I felt a kind of crazed urge to re-read something by DeLillo.
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