Was this the last time DeLillo ever tried to be funny? I've

>>9931665
He tried to be funny with End Zone.
Meh.
Some of the Lenny Bruce stuff in Underworld maybe. And the Waste Management guys drunkenly headbutting each other

I haven't read all his stuff but it definitely seems like White Noise is the cutoff. Ratner's Star is very goofy and funny if you're looking for that

>>9931665
PEN: In an interview this past March, you noted that your shift, over the last decade, toward shorter novels had been informed by re-reading several slim but seminal European works of fiction, including Albert Camus’s The Stranger, Peter Handke’s The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Max Frisch’s Man in the Holocene. Can you talk a little about the evolution of your work and influences?

DeLillo: A novel determines its own size and shape and I’ve never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require. (Underworld wanted to be big and I didn’t attempt to stand in the way.) The theme that seems to have evolved in my work during the past decade concerns time—time and loss. This was not a plan; the novels have simply tended to edge in that direction. Some years ago I had the briefest of exchanges with a professor of philosophy. I raised the subject of time. He said simply, “Time is too difficult.” Yes, time is a mystery and perhaps best examined (or experienced by my characters) in a concise and somewhat enigmatic manner. Next book may be a monster. (Or just a collection of short stories.)

also please note he lost family and friends in 9/11
I'd be depressed too

>>9932463
yeah, but he's been a dirge since the mid eighties

>>9932463
hmm, adds context. I love DeLillo, I just thought humor was noticeably more understated, if there at all, outside of White Noise.