That was a succinct, articulate evaluation of DeLillo by
"Grimes." I think elements of _Underworld_ are extremely
noir, or at least touch on noir themes: the "don't touch me"
inner life of J Edgar Hoover; his FBI files and how they take
on a reality that erases the facts of a person's life; the
suggestions of the "deep connections" between what appear to
the most deadly enemies in American politics and urban
entrepreneurship; and the sacrifices in human life that the
waste industry, and the war industy, entail. DeLillo's
_Running Dog_ is a mystery story in my opinion: a purveyor of
the highest possible porn; a missing film supposedly taken of
an orgy in Hitler's bunker; a reporter whose magazine used to
be far left but now is something almost the opposite of that;
contract murders; and obsessions with spying, informing, and
manipulating national and world events.
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