Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book devoted to this dimension of DeLillo's art. It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching. Spanning his entire career but focusing primarily on his work from Underworld (1997) to Zero K (2016), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo breaks important new ground in DeLillo studies. A welcome addition to the DeLillo shelf, it should rank with the indispensable studies of this author. Original, fresh, and at times startling, Herren's readings are enhanced by his scrupulous attention to prior DeLillo criticism. One sees considerable tracts of the now vast scholarly conversazione succinctly laid out, celebrated, and resourcefully augmented.