Terrific piece. Pynchon wrote a cover blurb for DeLillo’s Mao II

"This novel's a beauty. DeLillo takes us on a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing."

I have only read Underworld by DeLillo.