This year, the Pulitzer Prize committee declined to award a prize for fiction. So we asked these eight experts to do it instead. Sam Anderson: ''The Pale King,'' by David Foster Wallace There are plenty of ways to make the case for David Foster Wallace's ''Pale King'' as the winner of 2012's lost Pulitzer Prize. We could frame it as basic literary...
THE ANGEL ESMERALDA Nine Stories By Don DeLillo 213 pp. Scribner. $24 The older you get, the more jarring it can be to turn on the news and behold newly minted pundits sounding off on the import of dramatic changes rocking the nation -- pundits who look as if they're barely out of high school. How do these youthful commentators come by their...
THE ANGEL ESMERALDA Nine Stories By Don DeLillo Illustrated. 213 pages. Scribner. $24. ''The Angel Esmeralda,'' the title story in Don DeLillo's first ever collection of short fiction, is a dazzlingly told tale of despair and ruination, the dream of redemption and the testing of faith. Set in the Bronx and featuring a nun on the lookout for a...