DeLillo Interviews: "Living in dangerous times"

DeLillo recently gave an interview about "Living in dangerous times."

There are a few reasons why I chose this interview for the month of October. Not only is it recent, but DeLillo also talks a little bit about his upcoming novel (though he doesn't reveal much). Above all else, this interview amazes me precisely because it tells us almost nothing new. In fact, it's amazing to compare the responses here with the responses that DeLillo has given in previous interviews. In the "Introduction" to Conversations with Don DeLillo, editor Thomas DePietro calls attention to this fact: "[DeLillo] often repeats himself and even quotes himself" (ix).

I can't explain why, but this almost self-referential quality of his interviews doesn't surprise me in the least.

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DePietro, Thomas, ed. Conversations with Don DeLillo. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2005. Print.