DeLillo Interviews: NPR radio interview with DeLillo about Point Omega

"DeLillo's Man in the Desert, Up Against the Wall"

Above I have provided a link to a 2010 radio interview with DeLillo. Listen to DeLillo as he talks about many of the familiar themes in his work (war, images, death, mass media, etc.) and a few that are perhaps not so familiar (time as anxiety and the sublime).

In addition, he also speaks about being a writer and about his attraction to people in small rooms (Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra, Bill Gray in Mao II, etc.).

Finally, in another self-referential moment, he comments on "living in dangerous times."

DeLillo was nearly 75 at the time of the interview, so one can't help but smile when he says, "I'm still 22 in my mind."

Registers of Affect #3: "dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers"

"Think of two parallel lines [...] One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers, out of the deepest levels of the self. It's not generated by cause and effect like the other two lines. It's a line that cuts across causality, cuts across time. It has no history that we can recognize or understand. But it forces a connection. It puts a man on the path of his destiny."

-- Libra