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"Don DeLillo" in All Posts 1
largehearted boy
The Guardian Books Blog profiles author Don DeLillo. NPR is streaming the new Broken Bells album, Broken Bells (a collaboration between the Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse). The Atlantic predicts the death of the iPod. Authors ... 2
Conversational Reading
Lately I’ve been pushing Cesar Aira on people, which means I’m having a lot of conversations these days about how Americans don’t respect short novels. They’re insubstantial. They offend our sense of value, always measured by the gr... 3
PEN America
Back in October, PEN and the ACLU teamed up for “Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the ‘War on Terror’.” Don DeLillo, George Saunders, Eve Ensler, and many others read from declassified legal memos, tribunal transcr... 4
Normblog
Further to this post, here's a thought from Don DeLillo: Before he leaves, DeLillo makes an impassioned case for the continuing significance of the novel. "It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore huma... 5
largehearted boy
Don DeLillo talks to the Times Online about his new novel, Point Omega. The Observer reviews the new Joanna Newsom album, Have One on Me (out this Tuesday). The headline news, though, is that Newsom has finally conquered that most..... 6
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes
Daniel Green at the Reading Experience has taken notice of my blog post on Don DeLillo’s new novel, Point Omega—a post that was intended as a sort of supplement to the DeLillo review I wrote for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Green i... 7
The Millions
What’s with the Don DeLillo pile-on? The folks at Slate post a long audio conversation about White Noise, with one participant calling the novel “flagrantly bad.” I disagree…but then, I kind of liked Point Omega, too.... 8
The A.V. Club - Books
Don DeLillo is 73 years old. Richard Elster, the philosophical war consultant at the center of DeLillo’s 15th novel, Point Omega, is also 73. It’s usually inadvisable to look too closely at such parallels, but in fiction, nothing is... 9
Flavorwire
We move too fast. It’s a common complaint among just about everyone these days, as they have their eyes glued to a high-speed computer or their ears anchored to a cell phone. And it’s the kind of common problem to which there seems ... 10
Daring Fireball
Special issue of Hamish Hamilton’s [excellent literary magazine][e], “A celebration of the life of David Foster Wallace with contributions by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others.” Designed by our o... 11
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes
My review of Don DeLillo’s new short novel, Point Omega, is in today’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Here’s the kicker:
Like much of DeLillo’s work, “Point Omega” is concerned with how much we’re doing to do ourselves in. But unlike the... 12
New York Times: Books
Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert. 13
Huffington Post: Books
But Mr. DeLillo, famous for novels about dread, violence, the dehumanizing effects of technology and the invasion of popular culture into private lives, shuns publicity.... 14
largehearted boy
The New York Times profiles author Don DeLillo. Honolulu Weekly interviews singer-songwriter Andrew Bird. Eye Weekly interviews Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt about his new album, Realism. People often attempt to read auto... 15
Conversational Reading
About a Mountain by John D’AgataHow did About a Mountain slip by me? Looks awesome. It sounds something like Don DeLillo, and D’Agata has been praised by DFW. From Publishers Weekly’s review:
Starred Review. In this circuitous, styl... 16
New York Times: Books
Don DeLillo got the idea for his new book, “Point Omega,” when he happened upon Douglas Gordon’s video installation “24 Hour Psycho” at the Museum of Modern Art. 17
The Millions
Don DeLillo’s slim new volume Point Omega is out. The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece on DeLillo that explains how the movie Psycho helped inspire the book. Also new this week is Louise Erdrich’s new novel Shadow Ta... 18
Jacket Copy
In our pages on Sunday, novelist Matthew Sharpe looked at Don DeLillo's new novel (novella?), "Point Omega." In it, a filmmaker joins a former presidential war advisor at his desert vacation home, hoping to persuade him to be in a..... 19
Flavorwire
1. Don DeLillo talks about his new 117-page novel, Point Omega, which comes out next week. [via WSJ]
2. Zachary Quinto — who played Spock in JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek — will take on the role of George Gershwin in a Steven Spielberg-direc... 20
largehearted boy
The Wall Street Journal interviews author Don DeLillo. Mr. DeLillo, who grew up in the Bronx as the son of Italian immigrants, says his Catholic upbringing inevitably creeps into his work: "It has an effect in ways I can't be... |
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