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DeLillo

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

noun

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


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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

Like a Don DeLillo character, my favorite group activity is mass hysteria.

From New York Times Apr. 8, 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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