catching up/DeLillo, Chandler, Hammett

[B C Johnson]

I will doubtless be drummed out of the Pynchon Corps for this, but I feel compelled to take an affirmative stance on DeLillo.  For me, his writing is interesting because it in a way reflects the sensibilities of both Progressivism and Abstract Expressionism   -- a drip-painting Lefty, if you will.  Also, I think of him as a theorist as opposed to Pynchon's experimentalist (which may account for the notion that his characters lack dimension).  As to technique, the consensus seems to be favorable, but I don't think it's been mentioned that DeLillo is very funny, taking irony to a new level (meta-irony?).  Now, about Chandler and Hammett, I'll take their bastard son James Ellroy any day. . . .
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