External Resources

Learn more about Don DeLillo through external resources including news feeds, articles, audio, and video, as well as book reviews and awards.

For the latest news and discussion about Don DeLillo, check the following resources:

Selected Articles, Interviews, and Conversations

The following list includes news articles, interviews, and conversations featuring Don DeLillo, arranged in chronological order.

"‘White Noise’ Producer Uri Singer Acquires Rights To Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’" External
Deadline. February 24, 2021.
"Life in the Post-Internet Dystopia" External
The New Republic. December 29, 2020.
"Don DeLillo and the Feel of How It Is" External
Prospect Magazine. December 8, 2020.
"What Don DeLillo Dreads — And Finds Compelling — About A Blank Screen" External
PBS NewsHour. November 10, 2020.
"Don DeLillo’s Echo Chamber" External
NewStatesman. October 28, 2020.
"Don DeLillo: 'I wondered what would happen if power failed everywhere'" External
The Guardian. October 18, 2020.
"We All Live in Don DeLillo’s World. He’s Confused by It Too." External
The New York Times. October 11, 2020.
"Don DeLillo’s Prescience is a Mystery Even to His Acolytes" External
The Los Angeles Times. October 9, 2020.
"‘It Satisfies Every Childlike Curiosity’" External
The Atlantic. December 20, 2018.
"Defacing the Palimpsest: Don DeLillo, New York Antagonist" External
The Brooklyn Rail. June 2017.
"Don DeLillo: 'If science makes life after death possible, we have to follow it'" External
The Telegraph [UK]. June 12, 2016.
"Death and Don DeLillo" External
The Atlantic. May 15, 2016.
"Don DeLillo: ‘I think of myself as the kid from the Bronx’" External
The Guardian. May 6, 2016.
"A Rare DeLillo Sighting" External
The New York Times. May 5, 2016.
"The Genius of Don DeLillo’s Post-Underworld Work" External
Vulture. May 2, 2016.
"A Rare Interview with Don DeLillo, One of the Titans of American Fiction" External
The Los Angeles Times . April 29, 2016.
"Don DeLillo: The Great American Novelist on Paranoia, Prescience and Immortality" External
The Sydney Morning Herald. April 19, 2016.
"Don DeLillo on Gun Violence, New York Life, and Writing" External
Vulture. October 3, 2015.
"Don DeLillo: Anatomising the Everyday Terrors of American Life" External
The Guardian. September 5, 2015.
"Don DeLillo is First Recipient of Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction" External
The Washington Post. April 25, 2013.

A selection of radio programs featuring Don DeLillo, or in which DeLillo and his work are discussed.

"Don DeLillo On New Novel, 'The Silence'" External
All Things Considered, NPR. October 23, 2020.
"Don DeLillo - 'Underworld'" External
Bookclub, BBC Radio 4. September 8, 2016.
"DeLillo's 'Zero K' Freezes At The Edge Of Immortality" External
Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR. April 30, 2016.
"In Don DeLillo's 'Angel,' Stories Of America Alone" External
All Things Considered, NPR. November 14, 2011.
"Don DeLillo's 'Falling Man'" External
Fresh Air, NPR. May 16, 2007.
"Don DeLillo" External
Front Row, BBC Radio 4. May 27, 2003.
"Don DeLillo: 'Underworld'" External
Bookworm, KCRW. January 15, 1998.

Podcasts and other non-radio audio recordings featuring Don DeLillo are listed below.

"Don DeLillo in Conversation with Noah Hawley" External
Literary Arts. November 17, 2016.
"Don DeLillo on Writing His Novel 'Underworld'" External
Books Podcast, The Guardian. June 10, 2016.
"Joy Williams Reads Don DeLillo" External
The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, The New Yorker. March 1, 2019.
"Don DeLillo & Paul Auster: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 22" External
Granta Magazine Podcast. December 1, 2011.
"Don DeLillo with Mark Danner, 28 April 2010" External
Lannan Foundation Podcasts. April 28, 2010.

Many videos of Don DeLillo reading and discussing his work can be found through YouTube:

YouTube - "Don DeLillo" search results External

A selection of videos available through YouTube and other sites appears below.

"Don DeLillo on 'Underworld' - The John Adams Institute" External
The John Adams Institute [YouTube]. July 5, 2017.
"2015 NBA The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: Don DeLillo" External
National Book Foundation [YouTube]. November 20, 2015.
"Don DeLillo Reads from 'Mao II'" External
PEN America [YouTube]. January 22, 2011.
"Reckoning with Torture: Don Delillo Reads from a CIA Memo" External
PEN America [YouTube]. October 23, 2009.

Selected online reviews of Don DeLillo's books appear below.

The Silence (2020)

Zero K (2016)

Point Omega (2010)

Falling Man (2007)

Cosmopolis (2003)

The Body Artist (2001)

Underworld (1997)

Mao II (1991)

Libra (1988)

Don DeLillo has won numerous awards and honors for his writing, including the following:

Don DeLillo, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Winner

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