End Zone
by Don DeLillo · first published 1972
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…however, is his collection of extraordinary short novels that filled the 70s (Ratner's Star is the major exception; this is a monster-sized book, and it is a strange precursor to Stephenson's middle work). End Zone, Great Jones Street, Players, and Running Dog are all amazing portraits of the paranoias of the age — terrorism, bomb fear, rock & roll, long-running conspiracies. Reading DeLillo alongside JG Ballard's…
on “Shocks to the System: Don DeLillo’s Novels of the Cold War and Its Aftermath” ↗…Lady Chatterly's Lover Tennis - Lots of David Foster Wallace, but in particular Infinite Jest[1] which is set in large part in an elite tennis academy Basketball - The Crossover American football - End Zone (the author of the OP loved Underworld, but DeLillo didn't only write about baseball) Table Tennis - The mighty waltzer [1] Which actually has a lot about punting in American Football also
on “Why is baseball the most literary of sports?” ↗-- Read -- Don Delillo: End Zone Luc Ferry: A Brief History of Thought Brett Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero -- Working on -- Don Delillo: Libra Hubert Dreyfuss: Being in the World (it's taking me a long time...)
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗