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title: "Dude, I'm (Almost) Famous!"
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date: '2004-07-09T12:10:29-04:00'
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permalink: /dude-im-almost-famous/
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tags:
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- academia
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- publishing
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So I just got my copy of the [American Literary Scholarship 2002](http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/als/) in the mail, and for the first time ever, I’m mentioned in it.
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Well, sorta.
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In Jerome Klinkowitz’s review article covering recent work on fiction from the 1960s to the present is a paragraph on DeLillo criticism, which includes the following passage:
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> A more recent DeLillo novel gets comprehensive treatment in the essays commissioned by editors Joseph Dewey et al for their [UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874137853/plannedobsole-20) (Delaware). Much like Pynchon’s *Mason & Dixon*, *Underworld* seems written with complex critical responses in mind, and one of the best is “The Unmaking of History: Baseball, Cold War, and *Underworld*” (pp. 144-60) contributed by Katherine Fitzpatrick. She proposes that for DeLillo history is a weave of narratives, following historian J.H. Heller’s sense of historiographic narratology, centering on “the cultural value of this moment” as opposed to any collection of facts.
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Okay, so yay, me. But… *Katherine*?
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I suppose I should feel better that the blurb gets J. H. *Hexter*‘s name wrong, too. He’s *way* more famous than me, even if he is dead.
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