DeLillo just vaulted onto my favorite author list. Great Jones Street is more slapstick than White Noise. The protagonist, aptly named (in Pynchonian style) Bucky Wunderlick, is a burned-out rocker trying to reclaim his privacy in a New York apartment. He becomes embroiled in a complicated plot involving a powerful new drug and a powerful entertainment (foreshadowing Infinite Jest to a degree — indeed, DeLillo's influence on David Foster Wallace is clear).

Perhaps DeLillo is a poor man's Pynchon. The paranoia is there, as is the slapstick and to some degree the wordplay. DeLillo is much easier to read than Pynchon, mainly because his books actually have clear plot advancement, but also because they are simply more focused. Great Jones Street is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's not as well-wrought as White Noise, but the subject matter is slightly more to my liking, and I heartily recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in rock 'n roll.