Don DeLillo

You Say DeLillo, I Say ... Writers' Claws Are Out at PEN Gala

At around 7:45 p.m. on Monday, April 28, writer Carl Bernstein was mingling at the cocktail hour before the PEN Literary Awards at the Museum of Natural History, Coca Cola in hand, looking very healthy. “I ride a bike and listen to a lot of music,” he said. “I mostly listen to classical but also rock.  read more »

DeLillo’s 9/11 Resists Gravity

Don DeLillo (b. 1936) is the author of 13 previous novels.
Joyce Ravid
Don DeLillo (b. 1936) is the author of 13 previous novels.

Lean and nervous novel focuses on aftermath.  read more »

Gotham’s Greats Get Super-Bios

Assaulting feminism: author Leslie Bennetts.
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Assaulting feminism: author Leslie Bennetts.

It’s a season of cliffhangers.  read more »

Cook and Carlyle: Last of the Best

The wondrous Barbara Cook.
Mike Martin
The wondrous Barbara Cook.

Barbara Cook is always opening somewhere.  read more »

The King of Splatter Crit Lays Down His Weapon

Hatchet Jobs: Cutting Through Contemporary Literature , by Dale Peck.  read more »

All Day in a Rich Guy's Limo Makes for a Very Silly Novel

Cosmopolis , by Don DeLillo. Scribner, 209 pages, $25.Soon after Sept.  read more »

DeLillo Pretentious? Stupid? Literary Pugilists Throw Punches

A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in AmericanLiterary Prose , by B. R.  read more »

Naumann Nixes N.B.A. Because of Pynchon Snub

When publishing toffs and literary celebrities opened their invitations to the 48th National Book Aw  read more »

Roth, Mailer, Bellow Running Out of Gas

There comes a moment-it is scored in the evolving grain of things-when the balance between a father  read more »