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DeLillo

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

noun

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


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“It’s hard to imagine that to be the case,” Zarin said, offering another laugh, “but many people live their whole lives and never read Jane Austen or Don DeLillo or Pynchon or Tolstoy. Or anybody.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 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

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

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2023

“The future belongs to crowds,” Don DeLillo wrote in his 1991 novel, “Mao II.”

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

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