“If you’ve tried reading Don DeLillo’s fiction in the past and found it the literary equivalent of being whacked in the head with a sack full of quarters, his new short story collection, The Angel Esmeralda, is an ideal way to give him another chance.”
| The Paris Review | Fall 1993We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.
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We second that! This is truth here, people.
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— John Banville, reviewing DeLillo’s new short story collection The Angel Esmeralda
“Brooklyn’s collective memory still bears the image of [Ralph] Branca’s pitch to Thomson. The significance of baseball, more than other sports, lies in the very nature of the game—slow and spread out and rambling. It’s a game of history and memory, a kind of living archive.”
—Don DeLillo, in a Q&A on Grantland
“This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.”
—from “Creation” by Don DeLillo in The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
This is the first collection of DeLillo’s short stories. On sale Nov 15.
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Don DeLillo (via nouvelliste)
We can personally attest to the truthfulness of this quote. DeLillo actually cares about how the words and sentences look on the page. How great is that?
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— Salman Rushdie, on going to a Yankee game with Don DeLillo
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—John Cheever (via literaryflack)
Au contraire! Don DeLillo is a life-long Yankees fan, as is Paul Auster.
Proof: Here they are (several years ago) at a Yankees game with fellow fans from the Gotham Book Mart.
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DeLillo has written:
”I remember one afternoon, in October, hearing a strange sound, a little like surf, and wondering what it was. And later I realized it was the sound made by the crowd at Yankee Stadium when Tommy Henrich hit a late-inning home run.” (NYT)
Today’s White House pool report about Obama’s visit to a General Electric plant, is—not to oversell it—a work of heart-wrenching and haunting postmodern genius. See if you can tell the difference between today’s pool report, by Kathleen Moore of the Daily Gazette, and lines…
Wait! So who’s the guy who comes into the office and discusses the Yankees with us?
The Wide World of Scribner, publisher of Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jeannette Walls, Don DeLillo, Alice Hoffman, Chuck Klosterman, and many more. (scribnerbooks.com)
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