News at Eleven: "When a writer doesn't show his face,"

Don DeLillo wrote portentously in his 1991 novel, "Mao II," "he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."

God's--or at least [Thomas] Pynchon's--heir apparent may be Denis Johnson, an esteemed if not widely known poet and novelist who spends much of his time in northern Idaho and whose new novel, "Tree of Smoke," is one of the season's most eagerly awaited.

from Los Angeles Times: Reclusive writers leave their words at face value

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