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Don DeLillo

IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence

November 20, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

Don DeLillo The SIlence

by HENRY VEGGIAN
As hard as it may be to do, try to ignore the warning. That’s what I tell myself, but it’s still there, on the inside flap of the dust jacket. It has the tone of a press release, but it sounds more like the car horn you hear before the crash. “Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19.”

My first reaction was an eye roll. Here we go again, I thought, the old story about DeLillo the prophet/artist who foresaw 9-11, who foresaw the Great Recession, who gives us a language in advance of the event. My Italian brain plucked a phrase from another life —“la vecchia lagna”—the boring old complaint. [Read more…] about IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, book, Don DeLillo, literature

ABOUT HENRY VEGGIAN
Henry Veggian teaches in the Department of English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Understanding Don DeLillo (2014).

Don DeLillo’s Libra at 30

November 14, 2018 - Lisa Pulsifer

Decades after its publication, this fictional account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas remains provocative. [Read more…] about Don DeLillo’s Libra at 30

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: book club, Don DeLillo, education, literature

Archive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired

September 25, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

The archive of award-winning author Michael Ondaatje has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. Ondaatje, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “The English Patient,” is widely regarded as one of the finest English-language novelists writing today. [Read more…] about Archive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Acquisitions, Canada, Don DeLillo, J. M. Coetzee, James Salter, Jayne Anne Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, novelist, poet, release, Sri Lanka, The English Patient

Author Don DeLillo part of the 2016 Texas Book Festival lineup

September 15, 2016 - Jennifer Tisdale

The Ransom Center is pleased to co-sponsor Don DeLillo’s participation in the 2016 Texas Book Festival, one of the largest literary festivals in the country. [Read more…] about Author Don DeLillo part of the 2016 Texas Book Festival lineup

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Don DeLillo, literature, Noah Hawley, Texas Book Festival, Zero K

Exploring Don DeLillo’s novels from the “long nineties”

August 10, 2016 - Jennifer Tisdale

Joe Rollins

[Read more…] about Exploring Don DeLillo’s novels from the “long nineties”

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: AHRC, American fiction, Arts and Humanities Research Council, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Fellowships

Fellows Find: Revelations hidden on post-its, in book flaps, and in the margins of the papers in David Foster Wallace’s archive

January 29, 2016 - Stephen Burn

Players by Don DeLillo.

Stephen J. Burn, a Reader in American Literature after 1945 at the University of Glasgow, visited the Ransom Center during the spring of 2011 to research his book-in-progress, Neurofiction: the Contemporary American Novel and the Brain (Don DeLillo/ David Foster Wallace). Burn’s research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment.

 

When I first visited the Harry Ransom Center in August of 2008, I wasn’t looking for David Foster Wallace. I’d just finished revising a book that read Wallace alongside his contemporaries Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers (Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism), and was putting together a blueprint for a new book that I planned to build out of the Center’s archive of Don DeLillo’s assorted drafts and research materials. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Revelations hidden on post-its, in book flaps, and in the margins of the papers in David Foster Wallace’s archive

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Fellows Find, Fellowships, Infinite Jest 20th Anniversary, Stephen Burn

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