Tag Archives: Don DeLillo

PEN/Faulkner nominees announced

The five nominees for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction were announced yesterday. The national award honors the best American fiction each year. Four of the nominees are familiar faces in the literary awards world, but everyone is talking about … Continue reading

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Pattinson to star in DeLillo adaptation

Book-based films like The King’s Speech, Winter’s Bone and True Grit are highlights of this year’s Oscar nominee list. Perhaps next year will see a nomination for Cosmopolis, the first Don DeLillo novel to make it to the big screen. … Continue reading

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The 9/11 novel, take two

In the years since 9/11, there have been no shortage of novelists willing to take on the subject. Some of the best examples were published about 4 or 5 years ago: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Don … Continue reading

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Men in 2010?

2009 was a big year for the female literati, with new releases from major talents like Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Lorrie Moore,  Jayne Anne Phillips and Alice Munro. But in 2010, when it comes to anticipated fiction releases from literary … Continue reading

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