Don DeLillo

“Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. ... DeLillo's work displays elements of both modernism and postmodernism. ... He has said the primary influences on his work and development are ‘abstract expressionism, foreign films, and jazz.’ Many of DeLillo's books (notably White Noise) satirize academia and explore postmodern themes of rampant consumerism, novelty intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and re-integration of the family, and the promise of rebirth through violence. ... The psychology of crowds and the capitulation of individuals to group identity is a theme DeLillo examines in several of his novels, especially in the prologue to Underworld, Mao II, and Falling Man. ...” Wikipedia

W - White Noise, NY Times: White Noise by Jayne Anne Phillips (Jan. 13, 1985), Mapping Don DeLillo’s White Noise, LitCharts: White Noise Study Guide

W - Libra, Rolling Stone - Q&A: Don DeLillo, NY Times: DALLAS, ECHOING DOWN THE DECADES  By Anne Tyler (July 24, 1988), Don DeLillo’s Libra at 30

W - Underworld, NY Times: The Power of History by Don DeLillo (Sep. 7, 1997), Guardian: Don DeLillo’s Underworld – still hits a home run, NYBooks: Between Hell and History by Luc Sante (Nov. 1997), Excavating the Past in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Guardian: No 98 – Underworld (1997), [PDF] Underworld

W - The Body Artist, NY Times: Ghostbuster (Feb. 2001)

W - Falling Man, The Paris Review - Falling Men: On Don DeLillo and Terror, NY Times: The Clear Blue Sky, Guardian: As his world came tumbling down

 NY Times: We All Live in Don DeLillo’s World. He’s Confused by It Too. (Oct. 2020)

The Paris Review: The Art of Fiction No. 135 (Fall 1993)

New York: What to Read (May 2007)

BOOKFORUM: Stockholm, Are You Listening? Why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel

Soundcloud: Don Delillo reads from Mao II, Point Omega, Falling Man at Town Hall

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