Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize
Jeffrey Severs & Michael Streit
4.8from 50 ratings
- 42
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 50
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize
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
- Publisher
- Jeffrey Severs & Michael Streit
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Sept 2023
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 42 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 42: Arrangement in Gray and Black and Das Kapital with Jesse Kavadlo
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 41: Better Things for Better Living Through Chemistry with Mark Osteen
20 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 40: The Cloud of Unknowing and Cocksucker Blues with Patrick Whitmarsh
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Episode 42: Arrangement in Gray and Black and Das Kapital with Jesse Kavadlo
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's Buck Buck, not Johnny on the Pony. It's Hango Seek. You count to a hundred by fives and set out into the alleyways, shimmying up laundry poles and over back fences, sticking your head into coal bins to find the hiding players. Bronzini stood and watched. Girls playing jacks and jumping double dutch. Boys at boxball, marbles, and ringolivio. Five boys, each with a foot in a segmented circle that had names of countries marked in the wedges. China, Russia, Africa, France, and Mexico. The kid who is it stands at the center of the circle with a ball in his hand and slowly chants the warning words, I declare a war upon. […]
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- Jesse Kavadlo
- Mark Osteen
- Patrick Whitmarsh
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- 21 ratings
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- 4.7 / 5
- 29 ratings
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