White Noise

Details

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Name

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Author

Don DeLillo

Year

1985

Category

Postmodern satire

Vibe

Academic chaos, background disaster, supermarket apocalypse glow

My take

Reads like someone live-tweeting the end times from a college town; I keep rereading for the dialogue, which is somehow both ridiculous and exactly how people sound when they’re pretending they’re fine.