I do about four hours and then go running. In that 1993 interview with The Paris Review, DeLillo talked about method and process, saying: "I work in the morning at a manual typewriter. Ambiguities, contradictions, whispers, hints." One thing unlike another, one voice unlike the next. Something so angelic it makes your jaw hang open. Some nameless drudge, some desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit down and find his voice and luck out and do it. Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off the street. America was and is the immigrant's dream, and as the son of two immigrants I was attracted by the sense of possibility that had drawn my grandparents and parents."ĭeLillo is a writer's writer and he burrows deep into the mechanics of art, even putting words like these in the mouths of his characters (Bill Gray from Mao II): "Do you know why I believe in the novel? It's a democratic shout. "This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. "It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana," he said in a 1993 interview. He was born in 1936 in the Bronx and published his first novel, Americana, in 1971 after working on it for five years. It's the birthday of Don DeLillo, our modern Melville.
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