Jesse Kavadlo
Jesse Kavadlo is Professor of English at the Maryville University of St Louis, and president of the Don DeLillo Society. He is the author of Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief, and the forthcoming American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1971.

DeLillo Week: A message from the Office of the President (of the Don DeLillo Society, in St Louis, Missouri)
We conclude our special week-long look at the work of fiction master Don DeLillo with a piece written exclusively for the Spinoff by Jesse Kavadlo, Professor of English and Humanities at the Maryville University of St Louis in Missouri, and president of the Don DeLillo Society.