Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize

Jeffrey Severs & Michael Streit

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: ddswtnp@gmail.com. @delillopodcast. **Support our work and our trip to DeLillo's archive**: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/delillopodcast

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Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize

Episodes (33)

Mon Feb 2nd Episode 33: Mao II
Dec 12, 2025 Episode 32: Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket
Nov 20, 2025 Episode 31: An Interview with Gerald Howard

Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize

Feb 2, 2026
3½ hours
164 MB

“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, and on into the story of reclusive novelist Bill Gray, whose work, maybe, has a chance of deprogramming the mind and language of Karen Janney, one of the participants in that wedding – but maybe not, given the totalizing dominance by images that this novel documents. Our conversation delves into the several rich dialogues Mao II is known for, especially that about (quoting Bill) the “curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...

Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize

Episode 33: Mao II

Jeffrey Severs & Michael Streit

00:00 -02:59:32