White Noise, Back to Mono

I just finished reading Don Delillo's White Noise, which was first published in 1985, and is out in a very nice Penguin Classic Deluxe paperback.

Somehow I didn't read the book when it came out, even though there was considerable buzz. Maybe I was bitter and envious that Delillo was getting the lit-crit attention that I wished we cyberpunk SF writers were getting. You can't really trust writers' opinions about other writers books—many of us are, at least some of the time, mean-spirited...