Phawker (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
BY DAVE ALLEN Not long after Don DeLillo’s Underworld was published in 1997, it was canonized by critics and readers alike as the Next Great American Novel, and a 2006 survey in the New York Times cemented its cornerstone status among modern American letters. The praise, whether long-passed or more recent, is justified: DeLillo unseals [...]
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
As a literary device, pharmaceuticals have been woefully underused. (Has it really been more than 20 years since Don DeLillo's White Noise ?). But Dirk Wittenborn has picked up the pills in Pharmakon (Viking, $25.95). Told from the POV of young Zach Friedrich, the novel follows his...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Guy Geltner, author of The Medieval Prison: A Social History and a postdoctoral fellow in medieval history at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. His entry begins:Killing time on a recent visit to Chicago I picked up Don DeLillo’s Underworld and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, two mammoth works I’ve been meaning to read for some time.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
This review does not mention Don DeLillo.
Times emit (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
I’m packing for holiday, off for two weeks, debating my reading plans, and how ambitious they are. So far, I’ve packed: Personal Days by Ed Park, Jonathan Cape Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household, Penguin, very secondhand Americana, Don DeLillo (Vintage) - have given up on this one before, despite being a big DD and advertising fan. I kind of think [...]
O Danny Boy (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
From White Noise : I went to the automated teller machine to check my balance. I inserted my card, entered my secret code, tapped out my request. The figure on the screen roughly corresponded to my independent estimate, feebly arrived at after long searches through documents, tormented arithmetic. Waves of relief and gratitude flowed over me. The system had blessed my life. I felt its support and...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Every postmodernist worth his or her salt knows Don DeLillo's award-winning novel White Noise, and its chief technological horror. But a merry band of dark indie poppers from Los Angeles' fertile Silver Lake hood has adopted The Airborne Toxic Event...
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The following essay by NBCC poetry award winner Troy Jollimore, on Don DeLillo’s Libra , a finalist for the 1988 NBCC award in fiction, is part of the NBCC's "In Retrospect" series on Critical Mass, in which critics and writers revisit NBCC award winners and finalists from previous years. "Six point nine seconds of heat and light," muses a character in "Libra," Don DeLillo's vivid and haunting 1988...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Harnessing the same end-of-days anxiety that fueled Don DeLillo's 1985 novel White Noise and Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 1998 debut F#A# ∞ in music that bears traces of Ennio Morricone, Jack Nitzsche, and Philip Glass. read more
Starsportsblog (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Letzigrund bunker, 3:51 p.m. Years ago, I attended a reading by the author Don DeLillo. He read for a long, long time from a terribly overrated novel - Underworld (if you want some ass-kicking DeLillo, try Libra, from the time...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
A few weeks ago, all but one of the stories handed into my creative writing workshop ended with the narrator being murdered. I looked around my students, trying to spot a homicidal glint in their eyes. Was that human blood, or just a tea stain, on my Don DeLillo handout? Was he holding his pen like a flick knife?
Chekhov's Mistress (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Cambridge University Press’s “Cambridge Companions to Literature” series is always excellent for those of us who are hungry to think more about an author’s works, but are not quite academic (i.e. the books are intelligent, written by academics, but written accessibly and free of maddening obfuscating jargon). They’re a collection of scholarly essays touching on key points of an author’s works and careers....
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
It is a subject that has engaged some of the biggest names in international letters: Don DeLillo in Falling Man , Ian McEwan in Saturday and Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close . Each attempted to explain in imaginary terms that great reordering of western life, which happened on 9/11 when New York's Twin Towers were destroyed by al-Qaeda terrorists.
ReadySteadyBlog (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
The latest book review here on ReadySteadyBook comes from the pen of the excellent Dai Vaughan reviewing Don Delillo's Falling Man : [P]ervasively in this book, commas are used not primarily to subdivide clauses in the interests of clarity but to put a brake upon the thought, to stall it, so that the sentences move forward in lurches like a car in the hands of a novice driver. We are trapped in Alzheimer’s...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Is the cover story in this week’s The Onion Magazine.
