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DeLillo

American  
[duh-lee-loh] / dəˈli loʊ /

noun

  1. Don, born 1936, U.S. novelist.


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But those early books are also marred by a shaggy, frenetic jokiness and a sense that DeLillo was still finding his way.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2024

Abrams and Stephen King; pondered through various angles by Oliver Stone and Don DeLillo; and filtered through alternate realities where heroes like Doctor Who confront the “what if . . . ?” of it all.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2023

Decades later, in an irony DeLillo might appreciate, they’re coming home.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023

Isn’t it also the area of the country in which an “airborne toxic event” occurs because of a train crash in the Don DeLillo novel White Noise and its recent Netflix film adaptation?

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023

DeLillo has said in interviews that Robert Altman’s films influenced his work, and some will note the Gladney family’s Altman-style overlapping dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

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