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Sunday, May 14, 2006

Don DeLillo's Underworld...

...is first runner-up (to Toni Morrison's Beloved) in the New York Times poll of best American novels of the last twenty-five years.

DeLillo's White Noise and Libra also received many votes.

This is excellent news for UD, who loves DeLillo. It's not such great news for her fall semester Novels of Don DeLillo students, since UD was thinking of sparing them Underworld (it's around eight hundred pages long) but is now reconsidering.