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A day in the life
will die, predicts a character in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel “Cosmopolis”, because they are “melting into the texture of everyday life.” Even the word computer, she concludes, “sounds backward and dumb”. A decade later, as the components of "the computer” become from Economist Read more »
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Writers around the world call on China to respect freedom of expression
writers and artists from around the world – also including Ian McEwan, Tracey Emin, Edward Albee, Salman Rushdie, EL Doctorow and Don DeLillo – have put their names to a letter highlighting the plight of the imprisoned 2010 Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Did you read about fertilizer, Don DeLillo, and Derek Jeter?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us. • That the Earth's inner core is far hotter than previously thought—6,000 degrees Celsius (that's 10,832 degrees Fahrenheit, folks), or as hot as the sun's surface? —Tal Rosenberg Subscrib from Chicago Reader Read more »
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Don DeLillo wins first Library of Congress Prize
by the Library Thursday for the "diversity of his themes and the virtuosity of his prose. . . . "Like Dostoyevsky, Don DeLillo probes deeply into the sociopolitical and moral life of his country," said Librarian of Congress James Billington. 2011 saw the publication from CBS News Read more »
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Don DeLillo On The Future Of The Novel
the novel diminishes, that makes it all the more important, and it becomes even more obvious that committed writers have to keep working -- even if they don't get the recognition they might have received 10 or 20 or 30 years ago." Washington Post 04/25/13 from ArtsJournal Read more »
