Tag Archives: Don DeLillo

Amazons: Don DeLillo’s Obscure “Intimate Memoir”

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Victoria Patterson

Victoria Patterson on the “intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League”…by Don DeLillo. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged Amazons, Don DeLillo, intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League, White Noise | 23 Comments

The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Greg Olear

Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading →

Posted in 50 Greatest | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman | 200 Comments

On Loving Art, Imperfectly

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Janet Steen

In which Janet Steen contemplates why, as a so-called literary person, she can be such a half-assed reader. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Denis Johnson, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Auster, Paula Fox | Comments Off