Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize
by Jeffrey Severs & Michael Streit
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About this podcast
With episodes in which two devoted readers (Jeffrey Severs and Michael Streit) unpack his deadpan, hilarious, and disturbing works one by one, DDSWTNP is dedicated to the idea that Don DeLillo, the greatest of living writers, deserves every serious reader’s attention. Contact: [email protected]. @delillopodcast. **Support our work and our trip to DeLillo's archive**: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/delillopodcast
Episodes
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- Episode 42: Arrangement in Gray and Black and Das Kapital with Jesse Kavadlo · 2 h 0 min · Episode 42In Episode 42, DDSWTNP’s Summer of Underworld comes to a conclusion with guest Jesse Kavadlo, who draws on his New York and Fordham University past and his many years of DeLillo…
- Episode 41: Better Things for Better Living Through Chemistry with Mark Osteen · 1 h 53 min · Episode 41In Episode 41 DDSWTNP continue the Summer of Underworld by turning attention to Part 5 and the conclusion of Manx Martin’s narrative and welcoming to the show Mark Osteen, major…
- Episode 40: The Cloud of Unknowing and Cocksucker Blues with Patrick Whitmarsh · 2 h 33 min · Episode 40In Episode 40 DDSWTNP cover Parts 3 and 4 and Manx Martin (2) of Underworld and welcome to the show Patrick Whitmarsh, a scholar of eco-criticism, the anthropocene, and the…
- Episode 39: Long Tall Sally and Elegy for Left Hand Alone with Curt Gardner · 2 h 7 min · Episode 39In Episode 39 DDSWTNP look at Parts 1 and 2 of Underworld and welcome back to the show Curt Gardner, creator of the most important DeLillo resource in cyberspace, Don DeLillo’s…
- Episode 38: Pafko at the Wall with John Duvall · 1 h 21 min · Episode 38In Episode 38, DDSWTNP talk to John Duvall, a major scholar of DeLillo, author of a 2002 reader’s guide to Underworld, and expert especially on how DeLillo’s 1992 novella “Pafko…
- Episode 37: Uncovering Underworld · 1 h 16 min · Episode 37In Episode 37, DDSWTNP kick off the Summer of Underworld with an overview that, like Episode 20: Discovering White Noise, offers newcomers to the novel a set of things to look…
- Episode 36: Ratnerama · 2 h 15 min · Episode 36Transmission incoming from the insane world of Ratner’s Star, DeLillo’s fourth novel, a major change in his fiction and his most difficult text, underappreciated as precedent for…
- Episode 35: "Creation" · 1 h 24 min · Episode 35Anticipating a summer to be spent exploring Underworld, DDSWTNP in Episode 35 take a small detour to a DeLillo short story, “Creation,” which distills DeLillo’s omnipresent…
- Episode 34: An Interview with Tom LeClair · 1 h 47 min · Episode 34In Episode 34 DDSWTNP sit down for a revelatory talk with Tom LeClair, a founding critic in the study of DeLillo, his longtime friend and liaison to the literary world, and a…
- Episode 33: Mao II · 2 h 59 min · Episode 33“Here they come, marching into American sunlight.” In Episode 33, DDSWTNP follow Mao II from this opening line into a chilling view of a mass Moonie wedding at Yankee Stadium…
- Episode 32: Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket · 2 h 42 min · Episode 32We do have our favorite but surely wouldn’t mind if Thomas Pynchon won the Nobel Prize too . . . and in Episode 32 we finish off 2025 by considering Shadow Ticket, the noir…
- Episode 31: An Interview with Gerald Howard · 1 h 12 min · Episode 31In Episode 31 DDSWTNP get the chance to talk about DeLillo with his friend, colleague, and editor Gerald Howard, whose distinguished career in publishing at Viking Penguin…
- Episode 30: "So What?" · 1 h 14 min · Episode 30In Episode 30, DDSWTNP once again use the occasion of the Nobel Prize (which on October 9, 2025, was awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai) to talk about a prize Don…
- Episode 29: "Human Moments in World War III" · 1 h 55 min · Episode 29In Episode 29, DDSWTNP go to space to get a good look at the earth in a time of war, turning to one of DeLillo’s greatest short stories, “Human Moments in World War III,” first…
- Episode 28: Librarama · 2 h 29 min · Episode 28We’re still not done with Libra – or Libra is not done with us! In Episode 28, DDSWTNP pick up threads left hanging after our three-part treatment of DeLillo’s JFK novel. While…
- Episode 27: Libra (3) · 46 min · Episode 27So who killed JFK? We still don’t know, but we’re concluding our series on DeLillo’s conspiratorial history with Episode 27: Libra (3). This episode begins by focusing on the…
- Episode 26: Libra (2) · 1 h 14 min · Episode 26In Episode 26: Libra (2), DDSWTNP continue our deep dive into DeLillo’s story of Oswald and CIA plotters, taking on the distinctions between lone-gunman and systems theories, the…
- Episode 25: Libra (1) · 1 h 24 min · Episode 25Who killed JFK? What forces made the mind and actions of Lee Oswald? And what does it mean to be an agent of history or something called fate? DDSWTNP probe these and other big…
- Episode 24: From Amazons to White Noise · 2 h 0 min · Episode 24What does the déjà vu allegedly caused by the Airborne Toxic Event have to do with a disease called Jumping Frenchman? How is Jack Gladney’s “day of the station wagons” connected…
- Episode 23: The White Noise Film · 2 h 3 min · Episode 23Roll film! In Episode 23, DDSWTNP continue our White Noise residency by heading to the movies (or the TV screen) and examining Noah Baumbach’s 2022 film adaptation of the novel…
