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FILTER RESULTS ►A day in the life
Computers will die, predicts a character in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel “Cosmopolis”, because they are “melting into the texture of everyday life.” Even the word computer, she concludes, “sounds backward and dumb”. A decade later, as the...Show More Summary
Speed Kills
Last week, someone with the dark imagination of Don DeLillo and the satirical genius of Gary Shteyngart, acting in the name of the Syrian Electronic Army, figured out exactly how to exploit the sad feverishness of this moment in American history and make us look foolish. Show More Summary
Don DeLillo Wins the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Yesterday, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced Don DeLillo as the recipient of the inaugural Library of Congress Prize… Read More
Don Delillo receives first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
“I wish I had started earlier,” mused Don DeLillo in a Paris Review interview, “but evidently I wasn’t ready. First, I lacked ambition. I may have had novels in my head but very little on paper and no personal goals, no burning desire to achieve some end. Second, I didn’t have a sense of...
NYPD Testing Airflow in Subways as a Precaution against Possible Terror Attacks
This summer, New York City will witness what might be called an airborne non-toxic event, to corrupt a term coined in Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise. Over three days in July, the New York Police Department and scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., will release small amounts of a harmless, colorless gas [...]
No, That Is Not Don DeLillo on Twitter
This morning, a momentary pang of existential despair hit when the unverified @DonDeLilloOffic appeared, claiming to be the official Twitter account of "Don DeLillo, novelist" and revealing itself to the world like this: More »
10 Illuminating Fan Letters From Famous Authors, To Famous Authors
We recently spotted an excellent letter of admiration from William Gaddis to Don DeLillo over at … Read More
The Day Room: Us vs. Them
“There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit.” - Don DeLillo, The Day Room
Poor Skyfall, it deserved better
Sam Mendes is the Don Delillo of contemporary cinema, in that he’s as beloved as he’s banal and otherwise right-thinking people seem incapable of recognizing him as such. A few years ago I wrote of my hatred of the flat affect (or affected flatness) that characterizes Delillo’s prose, and I’m going to be making a [...]
A Giant Mandala Made From The Logos Of Mega Brands
Walking a spiritual path built on Target, Sonoco, and Dairy Queen. In his 1985 novel White Noise, Don DeLillo describes the average American supermarket as a deeply spiritual place. “This is where we wait together, regardless of our age, our carts stocked with brightly colored goods,” he wrote. Show More Summary
[EFM '13 Bites] ‘Mega Spider’ Begins To Sell; ‘Body Art’ Gains Sigourney Weaver; Weinstein Company Acquires And Dates ‘Blood Sisters: Vampire Academy’
Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast of Body Art, Luca Guadagnino’s new film based on the novel “The Body Artist” by Don DeLillo, Screen Daily reports. The film, shooting this summer in Portugal, also stars Isabelle Huppert, David Cronenberg and Denis Lavant. Written by Guadagnino, “Body Art stars Huppert as a woman who, grieving after [...]
What I bought – 6 February 2013
“Italians have made the family an extremist group. The family is the instrument of revenge.” (Don DeLillo, from The Names) You’ll notice something different this week. I started adding editors to the credits at the beginning of the year, but now I’ve added something else. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while (and [...]
David Cronenberg To Co-Star In ‘Body Art’ With Isabelle Huppert, Denis Lavant
Renowned director David Cronenberg is stepping out from behind the camera to co-star in a new film called Body Art. Following Cronenberg’s dense but dazzling big screen adaptation of author Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis, the Canadian is re-teaming with DeLillo and producer Paolo Branco to bring DeLillo’s 2001 novel The Body Artist to life. According to [...]Show More Summary
David Cronenberg To Star In Haunting Thriller ‘Body Art’
Iconic director David Cronenberg is returning to acting as he and Cosmopolis novelist Don DeLillo, alongside producer Paolo Branco are uniting on another film, Body Art, to be helmed by Italy’s Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), reports Variety. Cronenberg will co-star alongside Isabelle Huppert and Denis Lavant in the adapation of DeLillo’s “The Body Artist.” [...]
"We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming."
“We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.” - Don Delillo (via devilduck)
Nan Graham Named Publisher of Scribner Imprint
Stephen King’s longtime editor Nan Graham has been promoted to publisher and senior VP of Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint.
Graham has spent 18 years at the imprint, working with authors that included Don DeLillo, Miranda July, Frank...Show More Summary
DeLillo Stymies the Franz
Good on DeLillo: An early exchange was typical of the entire interview. Franzen asked how important meaning was to DeLillo’s writing. “Not much,” the older writer deadpanned. “I’m a writer of sentences… I don’t know where meaning comes from.” Franzen is visibly chastened by this anti-response. Show More Summary
Listen Up!
Here’s a rare recording of Ezra Pound reading his work. Related posts: News That Stays News “Yes, they believed I was a dangerous person, unpredictable, and... Listen Up! Don DeLillo spoke in Chicago last week, after receiving the... Tin Ears Tuning In: Alex Ross’s Listen to This Ross’s major passion, as both a critic and fan, is...
Tonight: Don't Dress Up Like David Foster Wallace for the DFW Appreciation Society
That would be tacky. (But funny! To me.) Also Don DeLillo, and Halloween, and learn how to keep a secret. --- See more posts by Choire Sicha 0 comments
Listen Up!
Don DeLillo spoke in Chicago last week, after receiving the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Adam Daniels, our intrepid #LitBeat correspondent, reports. Related posts: Books Have Ruined Our Lives, Now We Want to Ruin Yours Our intrepidShow More Summary
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