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One of the most quoted scenes in Don DeLillo’s comic novel White Noise involves a shopping spree. The book’s hero, a professor at a small Midwestern college, finds himself facing a midlife crisis and a creeping fear of death. A trip to the local mall revives his spirits.
“I shopped with reckless abandon,” he says.
Nic Rowan is managing editor at The Lamp and a fellow in the Robert Novak Journalism Program through The Fund for American Studies.
