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We All Live in Don DeLillo’s World. He’s Confused by It Too. [NYT] [trim version]
Don DeLillo’s prescience is a mystery even to his acolytes [LAT]
Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are [NYT]
Don DeLillo’s The Silence [The Brooklyn Rail]
For Don DeLillo, 'The Silence' Is Deafening [PopMatters ]
Don DeLillo Breaks The Silence [Book & Film Globe]
Book excerpt: "The Silence" by Don DeLillo [CBS]
Time to Destination from the novel The Silence [Harpers]
Don DeLillo’s prescience is a mystery even to his acolytes [LAT]
Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are [NYT]
Don DeLillo’s The Silence [The Brooklyn Rail]
For Don DeLillo, 'The Silence' Is Deafening [PopMatters ]
Don DeLillo Breaks The Silence [Book & Film Globe]
Book excerpt: "The Silence" by Don DeLillo [CBS]
Time to Destination from the novel The Silence [Harpers]
"I still use an old Olympia typewriter."
posted by doctornemo at 2:11 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by doctornemo at 2:11 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
The new one starts with a Super Bowl game?
I've read a bunch of DeLillo but manage to avoid ones with sports, like Underworld.
posted by doctornemo at 2:11 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
I've read a bunch of DeLillo but manage to avoid ones with sports, like Underworld.
posted by doctornemo at 2:11 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
The Super Bowl game never happens or is never aired. From the early reviews I read about a month ago, the ones that mentioned Covid, they all described this as a bit uneven. To be honest it seems a bit like a Woody Allen film.
posted by geoff. at 2:17 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by geoff. at 2:17 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
What?! Publishers or editors do that?
As someone adjacent to book publishing, this seems absolutely bizarre.
The new one starts with a Super Bowl game?
I've read a bunch of DeLillo but manage to avoid ones with sports, like Underworld
DeLillo has always been intrigued by mass spectacle (or as he puts it in Mao II, "The future belongs to crowds"), so sometimes that means a sporting event but other times, a mass wedding.
White Noise is an undeniable masterpiece. Go there first if you've never read him. I found his last one (Zero K) pretty forgettable, but I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt and will certainly give this one a shot.
posted by gwint at 2:31 PM on October 12, 2020 [3 favorites]
As someone adjacent to book publishing, this seems absolutely bizarre.
The new one starts with a Super Bowl game?
I've read a bunch of DeLillo but manage to avoid ones with sports, like Underworld
DeLillo has always been intrigued by mass spectacle (or as he puts it in Mao II, "The future belongs to crowds"), so sometimes that means a sporting event but other times, a mass wedding.
White Noise is an undeniable masterpiece. Go there first if you've never read him. I found his last one (Zero K) pretty forgettable, but I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt and will certainly give this one a shot.
posted by gwint at 2:31 PM on October 12, 2020 [3 favorites]
Following on gwint's reference to Mao II, the mass wedding in that novel takes place in Yankee Stadium. Ultimately the stadium may more important than the game for DeLillo.
posted by Lyme Drop at 2:59 PM on October 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Lyme Drop at 2:59 PM on October 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Oh cool is it another DeLillo book about consumerism and brand names? Awesome.
(More fool me, the premise actually does sound pretty interesting.)
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:10 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
(More fool me, the premise actually does sound pretty interesting.)
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:10 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
Kudos for the Trim version. It or the equivalent should be an option for all paywalled site posts...
posted by jim in austin at 3:22 PM on October 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by jim in austin at 3:22 PM on October 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Amysterious event on Super Bowl Sunday 2022 causes screens everywhere to go blank.
DeLillo meets Gobson? (The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.)
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 5:37 PM on October 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
DeLillo meets Gobson? (The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.)
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 5:37 PM on October 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Ah, yes, Wolloam Gobson.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 5:15 AM on October 13, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 5:15 AM on October 13, 2020 [7 favorites]
I recently watched Game 6. It was entertaining if completely up its own ass. Or entertaining because it was completely up its own ass. DeLillo's anti-technology stance in the article here feels very akin to that. At least he's up front about wanting to stay in the era of the white male writer.
posted by wyndham at 6:00 AM on October 14, 2020
posted by wyndham at 6:00 AM on October 14, 2020
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What?! Publishers or editors do that? This isn't fixing a typo, this is a rather large change that DeLillo glosses over for some eason.
Also if someone has an invite to a site that has galley copies like this it would be amazing.
posted by geoff. at 1:58 PM on October 12, 2020 [1 favorite]