When I first started reading House of Leaves, I explained it like this: Mark Z. Danielewski is the author of the novel House of Leaves in which Johnny Truant finds and publishes a piece of cinematic criticism written by Zampanò about a film that may or may not exist, created by prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson,…

Disclaimer: The following review contains mild spoilers. After my recent Thomas Pynchon kick, in which I read V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow over the course of several months, I decided to read a novel by one of Pynchon’s good friends, Don DeLillo. Pynchon and DeLillo have been rumored to lunch together;…