On my first day at Tin House (and during cocktail hour), I anxiously asked Williams what she was reading/what I should be reading. Don DeLillo's Point Omega, she told me.
Whether it's loud neighbors, buzzing pests or even a snoring roommate, annoying nighttime sounds can really make your evening a sleepless one. If you'...
White noise is masking the real sounds our country and the world are making. The sounds of anguish and injustice, of starvation and deprivation, of cruelty and anger.
In less than two hours, Whoopi Goldberg's White Noise manages to entertain -- it's very well packaged, after all -- and provoke a lot of thought about the current racial environment.
The bedside phone in 6 Columbus, my New York hotel, rang twice. Then a familiar voice said: "You're seeing Don today. I'll join you for lunch afterwar...
But Mr. DeLillo, famous for novels about dread, violence, the dehumanizing effects of technology and the invasion of popular culture into private live...