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Title: Pafko at the Wall
Review: Canonization of a modern classic, or contract fulfillment? A mere eight months after the slender "The Body Artist" comes the even slenderer "Pafko at the Wall": first published ages ago in Harper's magazine, then reappearing in revised form as the first section of DeLillo's lumbering, intermittently brilliant novel "Underworld." Now, on the fourth anniversary of "Underworld"'s publication, here it is again. Granted, it's a tour de force, and deserves as wide an audience as possible, but the thought of Scribner expecting readers to pay as much for this as they could pay for 800-plus pages of "Underworld" in paperback--or two copies of the "Underworld" hardcover from nearly any superstore remainder table in the United States--boggles the mind.
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