The Boston Globe, September 27th, 1988
Northeastern University savante Cecelia Tichi reviews Don DeLillo's "Libra" in the October Boston Review, and it is the very model of the modern book review . . . DeLillo is encouraged to return to novels and, en passant, Tom Wolfe to get back to nonfiction after his "Bonfire of the Vanities," in which "all the characters sound just alike, being loosed from the documentary sources that discipline Wolfe, force him to differentiate voice and character." Last month, as we quoted here, Atlantic poetry editor Peter Davison decried the monotony of postmodern poetry's verbs -- hardly a subjunctive o...
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