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Don DeLillo’s Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won’t Acknowledge

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/don-delillo-funniest-novel-hockey-amazons

Sometimes movies are better than their books. I know there are may people who will very strongly disagree with me, but so far White Noise (on Netflix) is more enjoyable to me than the book was. I know Don DeLillo is a national treasure and super deep, etc. and if I were to dive in and really study his book(s) I'm sure I"d find a richness and depth of meaning or whatever that would make any film pale by comparison.

The fact, however, remains that I am finding the movie to be colorful, flavorful, and gripping. The book was great, but to me it felt cold, sterile, bleak. I feel like the movie brings home some part of the experience I was missing form the book.

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Lesering.de Dec 13

Die Illusion der Sicherheit – wie westliche Romane den Frieden erzählen, den es nie gab https://www.lesering.de/id/4946948/Die-Illusion-der-Sicherheit---wie-westliche-Romane-den-Frieden-erzaehlen-den-es-nie-gab/ #Nachkriegsliteratur #BrigitteReimann #ThomasBrasch #HeinrichBöll #HeinerMüller #ChristaWolf #VolkerBraun #Verdrängung #ThomasMann #DonDeLillo #JoanDidion #RachelCusk #ZadieSmith #Sicherheit #Gegenwart #Kolumne #Frieden #Kolumne #Westen #DDR

Die Illusion der Sicherheit – wie westliche Romane den Frieden erzählen, den es nie gab - Kolumne

Frieden war im Westen Wohlstand, im Osten Parole – und in der Literatur beides Illusion. Von Böll bis Brasch, von Christa Wolf bis DeLillo zeigt dieser Essay, warum Sicherheit die schönste Lüge der Nachkriegszeit blieb – und Literatur ihr ehrlichster Widerspruch war.

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Rob Christopher Oct 26

3 things about David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS [2012]

1. A slow elevator, soundtracked with Satie.
2. The way Juliette Binoche simply vanishes.
3. Eggplant leftovers for the chauffeur.

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Waywords Studio Aug 12, 2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

DeLillo's work drags a reclusive and idealistic artist into the global politics he speaks to and lives against. Setting up to be a devastating story.

https://youtu.be/o4Ywv37gY_w

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

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Waywords Studio Jul 29, 2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -

An artist/writer is pulled out of his seclusion to engage the postmodern world of terrorism and war, a struggle of individual consciences against mob thought. I chose this for the theme and as a follow-up to Alameddine's "Comforting Myths."

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