Don DeLillo
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Nov 2, 2026
JonHOST
Like how close is this to an original idea or how much has this been edited and re-edited and re-edited?
Max LuryGUEST
When you're really in the hands of like a really, really, really competent stylist, I don't know, like Don DeLillo, I think there are passages there that are just so brilliant.
Max LuryGUEST
They're so incredible that you're like, okay, there must've been some work going into this.
Max LuryGUEST
And a couple of actually Don DeLillo's passages, I've like written out on Google docs to see what they look like in the font I write in and then printed them out.
Max LuryGUEST
And having read some of them loads of times, I think you do notice that there are There are ways these long sentences will follow something and kind of go macro and micro.
Max LuryGUEST
It actually is very controlled and really panoramic and exciting when you're reading it.
TonyHOST
right.
TonyHOST
Number 54, White Noise by Don DeLillo, which we have both read.
TonyHOST
Yes.
TonyHOST
Did we do an episode about this? I don't remember.
Nadia BozakGUEST
And I, I found, I read, I read a novel that I, I really loved when I was, you know, sort of a young university student.
Nadia BozakGUEST
And it was White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Nadia BozakGUEST
And I was surprised, it was published, I think, in 1980.
Nadia BozakGUEST
Yeah.
EvaHOST
Then we have to bring in the ringers.
RaveHOST
Like in that Don DeLillo novel that Don DeLillo pretended he didn't write, but he did.
RaveHOST
That he
EvaHOST
never wrote, damn
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
It's a pretty out-there movie.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
He's taking all the tips of Marriage Story and turning it into this adaptation of a kind of pretty out-there Don DeLillo novel.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
Yeah.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
I have a lot of respect for this movie.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
It's, it's the thing on the page.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
Um, So many of the great prose writers that I really admire, Cormac McCarthy or Don DeLillo, there's such a minimalism to the prose.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
And I think specifically because the less you say, as long as the thing you're saying is very evocative and tangible...
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
The, the greater opportunity there is for the person at home who's getting the other side of this transmission psychically can like build their own beautiful pictures.
Neil McRobertHOST
Can you recommend a book for my listeners to read?
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
Well, how about we go with Libra by Don DeLillo while we're on that subject?
Neil McRobertHOST
Excellent.
Neil McRobertHOST
Tell the listeners briefly about Libra.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
the right kind of personality can become a weapon and a tragic figure malleable to being bent in the direction of any ideology.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
It also just has some of the most beautiful prose that you'll ever read.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
Reading that book and reading DeLillo in general, that's become like a North Star for me for sure to return to just to see what like what deeply emotional and affecting prose that don't in any way feel saccharine can, can look like.
Jane SchoenbrunGUEST
It's a
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
And there are so many jokes in the book that are referring to the way that things are spelt, but they just don't translate them.
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
But if you are writing great works of content, right, like arguably Don DeLillo or like people that, you know, put interesting concepts together in inventive ways, that's great.
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
I'm very happy to read that.
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
And if you can't write a sentence, then that's not such a big deal for me.
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
And what I felt like, and this is the truth, I'm not really trying to... you know, color it one way or another, is after reading The Crossing, right, I went and read his other ones.
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
And I had read DeLillo and Roth and the other folks that at that time, everyone was saying, oh, these are the top five, you know, best living authors.
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
And I was like, well, okay, you know, they're like Libra, you
Kevin KautzmanHOST
know, Mao Tu is really good.
Kevin KautzmanHOST
yeah.
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
Yeah, and I think that that...
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
Well, to finish that thought, and then if you want to go back to DeLillo, I do like DeLillo, but I just don't think that there was anything as, in terms of the...
Andrew EdwardsGUEST
That the ambition behind McCarthy is so like his balls are so huge.
Norman MailerGUEST
William Kennedy is terrific.
Norman MailerGUEST
We've got Don DeLillo.
Norman MailerGUEST
There are an awful lot of very good writers around now.
Norman MailerGUEST
I know I've missed a few.
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