Read Libra after decades and was struck by how brilliant and true portrait of autistic/neurodivergent person DeLillo’s Oswald is. As a diagnosed neurodivergent it was gutting and moving to read about the tragedy of Oswald’s struggle with his thoughts and life. Now, I guess that DDL propably did not set to write him as a ND person, and maybe that is why he succeeded so brilantly. This is not the most important point about this masterwork, but it just jumped out to me. Thoughts?

Many years ago a friend of mine told me that they had been reading an interview with DeLillo and that in the interview he had said something along the lines of “my writing will make you so frustrated you throw the book out the window but compelled enough to walk down to get it before it hits the ground”. I was thinking about this quote as I labor through Blue Lard by Sorokin and went to look it up but can find no such quote. Does anyone know if DeLillo ever said anything like this and what the source would be? Many thanks.

For me? College running/blocking back and multiple drop-out Gary Harkness from End Zone....followed by Max Stenner (in more of a supporting role) in The Silence.

Mind you, I have only read Americana, End Zone, White Noise, The Names, Libra and The Silence.

So maybe my list will change after reading Underworld, Mao II, Point Omega or another from his canon.

Or will it not?

I am seeking a physical copy of “In The Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel,” Tom LeClair’s book on Don DeLillo. If anybody has a copy they’re interested in selling, or knows somebody who does, or has any general advice on procuring this very hard to find and out-of-print book — please let me know. I’d really appreciate it. Thank you!

I'm wondering if the paintings of the Black Panthers and Jayne Mansfield are actual pieces Delillo is referencing.

Hi there, I'm new in DeLillos literature. I just read The Names in Spanish and it was great but I feel like I'm missing something. (English is not my first language as you can imagine)

I have read some posts in this r/ and I saw those who read it, love it and I'm not quite sure why.

The atmosphere, the descriptions of Greece, all the tension with the friends of James, etc. They are all great, but I find it like vague? Maybe it's not so much the story itself that's important, but how it's told.

I'm not saying that is a bad book or anything like that, indeed I'm interested in reading other books like white noise but in English this time. Just sharing my impressions and my wish of understand lol

What do you think? Someone felt it too?

Anybody have this? Would like to read before the mothership lands.

Is this a joke or some crackpot trying to cash in on the author's name?
I'm tempted to buy it just to see if its even in DeLillo's style. But I've never read an ebook; I'm not even sure how to view a kindle book.

Could be:

1. A joke (very likely)
2. A scammer using a famous author's name (somewhat likely)
3. Another author with the same name (doubtful)
4. Don DeLillo has learned to self-publish (yeah right!)
5. An intern at a publishing house stole a manuscript (old? rejected?) and published it (I wish!)

Anyway, I'm wondering your thoughts and am curious if anyone else has discovered this troll up on Amazon. I mean, I assume this a troll, a jokester. On the opposite end, it could be the big guy himself just quietly releasing a new book. That'd explain the lack of a book cover. Ha ha!

[EDIT - UPDATE]
Well, I reported the fake DD book to Amazon. They were not helpful. They couldn't do anything, so sent me to Kindle. Their contact support page isn't helpful. There's zero topics which are related to this issue. So I go to their help topics page, which inevitably redirects me to the same contact page with a link to "Report to KDP by contacting us." But that's the same page, which is useless for this issue.

Oh well. Someone will get A Deadly Christmas Night removed, I'm sure.

[EDIT 2 - CONTACTED SCRIBNER)

At the suggestion of The Obliterate, I contacted Scribner. Here's the text of the email I sent them:

Hi, I'm a Don DeLillo fan and found a fake ebook released 12-09-2024 under Don DeLillo's name. I reported the issue to Amazon after verifying it was not a real DeLillo release. They said only KDP support could help me. However, the KDP contact page does not have a way for me to contact them about this issue. Nor does their help page do anything but redirect me to the KDP contact page.  
So here are the Amazon links to the fake Don DeLillo book A Deadly Christmas Night. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ1KM96Q/

Where I failed in getting this fake (and probably AI-written book) removed, I hope you swiftly succeed.

So, I’m currently reading Libra for the first time. And, uh, why does it feel like the novel is slipping into my lived reality via this CEO’s assassination?

I finished this book last night.

What in the hell is the point of the sad failed orgy and then the random guy telling David they need to compare dick sizes to see who is top and bottom after picking him up?

Has Delillo ever commented about this part of the book?

“He erased it,” she said. “Because what else was he supposed to do?”

can someone please explain the context here...has this been addressed in the text before?

Hello,

So I'm a student in high school and I need to make a presentation about The silence. I found the story a bit blank and nothing really sparked any ideas for how to present it. I like the way he writes and I see the theme of how we depend on technology, but nothing really inspired me.

I need to present the book itself, what it talks about, what I thought about it in a way that interests the listener. It's an important criteria, but I really don't have any ideas. I'm presenting alone, so if anyone has any thoughts on what to talk about or what should I do to make the presentation (not like a boring powerpoint), I'm listening.

Also, I read other books from Delillo and I really liked them. Is it just me or is The silence not as good as the others. And why so?

Copyright 1991. “The future belongs to crowds.”

Above

Any news on delillo new works?? Any new novels and projects?