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𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

- Brooding
- Dread-full
- Prescient

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

How does each scene, however uneventful, mirror the novel's other narrative ideas?

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #dondelillo #maoii #fiction #modernism #artphilosophy #literaryfiction

Vince is back with our weekly picks in time for your weekend reading!

Mind's Eye by #DouglasERichards
Every Dead Thing by #JohnConnolly
Most Ardently Yours by #FreyaSampson
Seeing Sunny Again by #PaulClayton
Pillow Stalk by #DianeVallere
The Secret History of Las Vegas by #ChrisAbani
White Noise by #DonDeLillo
Metal Slinger by #RachelSchneider
The Magic of Recluce by #LEModesittJr
Retro by #JessicaMGoldstein
The Arcadian by #StevenPressfield
Neptune's Fortune by #JulianSancton

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Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/don-delillo-funniest-novel-hockey-amazons

3 things about David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS [2012]

1. A slow elevator, soundtracked with Satie.
2. The way Juliette Binoche simply vanishes.
3. Eggplant leftovers for the chauffeur.

#3things #movies #davodcronenberg #dondelillo #cinema

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

DeLillo's work drags a reclusive and idealistic artist into the global politics he speaks to and lives against. Setting up to be a devastating story.

https://youtu.be/o4Ywv37gY_w

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #dondelillo #maoii #mao2 #fiction #artists #politics

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

An artist/writer is pulled out of his seclusion to engage the postmodern world of terrorism and war, a struggle of individual consciences against mob thought. I chose this for the theme and as a follow-up to Alameddine's "Comforting Myths."

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #dondelillo #maoii #terrorism #artists #politicalfiction

Gary Fisketjon, Legendary Editor Fired from Knopf in 2019, On His Next Act

In August 1978, Raymond Carver drove his rattletrap Ford stat…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/21184/

“I’m also surprised in retrospect that I didn’t pick what’s often referred to as a ‘ #systemsnovel,’ by which I mean the work of authors like #WilliamGaddis, #DonDeLillo, #ThomasPynchon and #DavidFosterWallace - #writers who deal with vast and complex systems..” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

The Best 20th-Century American...

TBR Pile: 2025 Fiction Preview -

What are the novels I'm most looking forward to reading this next year? Here are some!

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6DexbBW-Mc

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #2025preview #tbr2025 #fiction #umbertoeco #baudolino #milankundera #paulauster #timbuktu #harukimurakami #thesympathizer #vietthanhnguyen #hankang #thevegetarian #howbeautifulwewere #mohsinhamid #simonjimenez #marlonjames #harlanellison #zadiesmith #whiteteeth #dondelillo

2024: book thirty-two. #bookstodon #books #libra #dondelillo #2024books #books2024

Reading novels about #NYC in order to supervise a senior thesis on the city. #Cosmpolis by #DonDeLillo was very good (though #WhiteNoise remains my favorite of his).

Great suggestions in this essay about "temporal displacement, time loops, time skips, time slips or parallel timelines." https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/gotta-get-back-in-time-the-current-explosion-of-time-travel-novels-goes-beyond-sci-fi-and-fantasy/
If #time is of interest, you can check out a volume of essays I edited, published by #CambridgeUP, that takes up this issue in #US #literature from its #indigenous roots to #DonDeLillo, from the #SalemWitchTrials to the #graphic novel, #RichardMcGuire's #Here. I also wrote a book on #tempo(e)rality with, you guessed it, #Poe as the (wobbly) center.

Seems a good time to reread White Noise. I love DeLillo's gentle gear-shifts from the everyday to the transcendent

#books #bookstodon #reading #DonDeLillo #WhiteNoise #family

Dreams

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.

~ Don DeLillo

slip:4a1113.

3 things about Noah Baumbach’s WHITE NOISE [2022]

1. Hitler/Elvis fugue.
2. Busby Berkeley garbage.
3. The generic aisle.

#3things #movies #NoahBaumback #AdamDriver #DonDelillo #cinemastodon

I am reading #WhiteNoise by #DonDeLillo and find it disturbingly relevant to today. A toxic spill, people wearing masks, conspiracy theories, a real evacuation being used to refine the protocols for a simulated evacuation, a popular Hitler studies program in a college, data models of individual person’s lives assembled from disparate data sources and accessible in an abandoned Boy Scout barracks. Why isn’t everyone reading this book????? #Bookstodon

The best description of the Warren Commission to date:

"This is the megaton novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to lowa City and lived to be a hundred.

This is the Joycean Book of America, remember--the novel in which nothing is left out."

#LIBRA #DonDelillo

This song and video are life

#WhiteNoise
#DonDeLillo
#LCDSoundSystem

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nJblPY5hVHI&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

@ghorwood @jacobydave
I just (a couple nights back) watched it and found it to be an enjoyable, absurdly quirky romp…with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments….

I’ve only read a bit of Delillo, and this isn’t one of the few. I’ve put a hold on it at my library but it appears I’m late to the game on that maneuver (60th in line on a handful of copies), stay tuned…

#Books
#DonDelillo
#LoveYourLibrary

Time to watch White Noise at last. The book is dear to my heart (and I wrote my first research paper about it, you can read it below if you care, it wasn't good).
Not sure what the film is gonna be like...
https://www.liminalweb.site/hitler-elvis-same-stuff-simulacrum-in-don-delillos-white-noise/

#literature #cinema #DonDelillo #whitenoise

Reading #Cosmopolis has made me want to revisit Cronenberg's film. I didn't care for it on first viewing, though it has some great lines from DeLillo. This one is my open letter to Silicon Valley
#SarahGadon #DonDeLillo #DavidCronenberg #film

@Filoffen En fantastisk bog. Jeg læste den kort tid efter den var udgivet, mens jeg var udstationeret på UCI i Californien. Den og Underworld må være DeLillos hovedværker. Hans fiktion er noget af det skarpeste postmodernistiske kulturanalyse, man finder. Jeg har svært ved at forestille mig den filmatiseret, men det må jo komme an på en prøve. #dondelillo #whitenoice

"Reputation is a delicate thing. A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable." —Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

Late to this one, but it feels weirdly prophetic. It's a strange kind of fantasia, using gorgeous language to convey gloomy ideas through a protagonist as compelling as he is repellent

#books #reading #bookstodon #DonDeLillo #BookDesign #BookQuotes

White Noise is not my favorite novel, but it's probably the one that has been the most impactful in my life, as the movie adaptation is coming out this week on #Netflix, I thought it'd be a good idea to dig through my archives and republish the very first research paper I wrote in graduate school, which incidentally was about the novel. It may not be a masterpiece, but I believe it has some interesting bits.
Enjoy.

https://liminalweb.substack.com/p/simulacrum-in-don-delillos-white?sd=pf

#WhiteNoise #literature #postmodernism #DonDeLillo