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Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of the story collection “ The Angel Esmeralda ” and the novel “ The Silence ,” among other works of fiction.

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3 picks · 1971–2002

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Baader–Meinhof
fiction ·

Short story about a woman being picked up by a man in an art gallery and then resisting him in her apartment. Although neither gallery nor artist is named,…

Sputnik
fiction ·

The Demings live in a split-level house with a picture window, a breezeway, and bright siding. Their story is interspersed with product-label warnings like…

Game Plan
fiction ·

Fiction, from 1971: “Here before our cubicles we sit quietly, content to suck the sweet flesh out of quartered oranges.”