New Additions to the DeLillo Pages

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This page is used to note all the new additions to the site, for repeat visitors. Main homepage is Don DeLillo's America.

By the way, I keep a list of the DeLillo-related items that I am still searching for.

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Good and unexpected news today - DeLillo's got a novel due out in early 2010 - entitled Point Omega - more details on the What's Next page. Also, from the sounds of this interview with Granta editor John Freeman there may be a new DeLillo piece appearing the next issue of Granta (not quite sure when that may be).
(June 9, 2009)

Added a link to a couple videos from the Algren event held back in April (includes a little bit of DeLillo reading), on the Events page.
(June 6, 2009)

Added a couple photos from the Common Wealth awards dinner held in Delaware, one on the Events page and one on the Awards page. Also added a link and some DeLillo quotes from the Algren event in Chicago.
(April 29, 2009)

The Chicago Tribune reports on Nelson Algren event in Chicago on the 6th. Details on the Events page.
(April 13, 2009)

New on the Events page: DeLillo will receive the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Delaware on April 25, 2009. I also added a link for the Nelson Algren event in Chicago on April 6, 2009. And added a link to the mysterious work of the Donologist onto the Links page.
(April 1, 2009)

The Chicago Tribune reports that DeLillo will be appearing in Chicago in April at an event celebrating Nelson Algren. Details on the Events page.
(Feb. 18, 2009)

A nice treat on Super Sunday - the full text of the 1972 story "Total Loss Weekend" is now online, and a link is provided on the Stories page (thanks to Mark for the link!). Also updated the Bibliography. Also added one review on the Falling Man media page.
(Feb. 1, 2009)

Noting that the January 2009 Harper's magazine includes DeLillo's comments at the DF Wallace memorial; a portion now on the Events page. Also updated the Bibliography.
(Jan. 5, 2009)

Added several cover images, and did some rearrangement of the images into 'cover galleries'; new content added for End Zone covers, Great Jones Street covers, and Running Dog covers.
(Dec. 9, 2008)

Three updates today.

Found another interesting Russion edition of a DeLillo novel - White Noise - published in 2003. Image and info available on the Russian Novels page.

Added a link and short excerpt from a good blog entry on the DeLillo- David Foster Wallace letters - see the end of the Oct. 23 2008 entry on the Events page.

Added a link to another publication of the DeLillo piece 'Woman in the distance' in the new periodical Artesian, along with an image from the film 'Wanda'; details on the Articles page.
(Dec. 6, 2008)

Several nice items today.

Added a link to the online publication of the DeLillo piece 'Woman in the distance' which was published by the Guardian last week; link available on the Articles page.

Added a picture of the program from the David Foster Wallace memorial to the Events page.

Created a Dial H.I.S.T.O.R.Y page, with a link to the film online at UBUWEB.

Also added some info on the purported DeLillo blog at The Onion on the Odds and Ends page.
(Nov 6, 2008)

Added news that DeLillo spoke at a memorial for David Foster Wallace on Oct 23, along with a bit of news from the Skidmore reading. Details on the Events page. Also added the text of a letter from Norman Mailer to DeLillo regarding Libra.
(Oct 26, 2008)

News of an upcoming public DeLillo talk on October 14 in upstate New York. Details on the Events page (thanks to Bosh!).
(Sept 23, 2008)

Not much news this summer... and today's update is a disappointing one - turns out filming never started on "End Zone" so who knows if the movie will ever get made. Details on the Odds and Ends page (scroll down a bit).
(Sept 7, 2008)

Two updates on the DeLillo Events page; an upcoming production of Love-Lies-Bleeding in Melbourne, Australia (thanks Bosh!), and news of a past production of Valparaiso in June in NYC (thanks to Mike). Also updated a link for the online journal Undercurrent on the Lit Crit page.
(July 12, 2008)

Posted a page of notes and photos from the DeLillo Conference in Osnabrück, and also posted news of a performance of 'The Word for Snow' in the Czech Republic in August (see Events for more details).
(June 14, 2008)

Listed a new book of DeLillo criticism, fresh from Cambridge, and added three cover images of German editions (first edition of White Noise, and two of Libra/Sieben Sekunden).
(May 17, 2008)

I've changed the email contact info for the site, and discontinuing the email subscriptions - please use the RSS feed!
(May 10, 2008)

Just a bit of housekeeping on the home page today; doing a bit of experimenting with SSI.

(April 30, 2008)

First off, the Onion Magazine tackles DeLillo - link to Odds and Ends for a nice graphic. Also, another reading of DeLillo's "The Word for Snow" in Chicago, on April 21 - see Events for details.

(April 19, 2008)

One more DeLillo event of interest in April - there'll be a reading of a short play on April 22 in NYC (most likely 'The Word for Snow'). Thanks to Bosh for this one.

(April 6, 2008)

More info on the international DeLillo conference coming up in late April in Germany, as well as an upcoming DeLillo appearance at the Norman Mailer Memorial on April 9 in NYC; see the Events page for details.

(April 2, 2008)

News on the international DeLillo conference coming up in late April in Germany; see the Events page for details.

(March 19, 2008)

News on an upcoming production of "Love-Lies-Bleeding" in Boston starting Feb 15. See Love-Lies-Bleeding Productions page.

(February 6, 2008)

News on the passing of a defender of access to literature, who kept DeLillo's Americana on the shelves of her Utah library in the face of great pressures, added to Odds and Ends page.

(January 27, 2008)

Here's a rarity - an actual DeLillo candid photo taken at Yankee stadium, sitting with Paul Auster and two folks from the Gotham Book Mart. Stuck this on the Odds and Ends page. (thanks to Trent!)

Also added a few recent items onto the Bibliography page.

(December 23, 2007)

A new article by Gerald Howard gives the full back story on Amazons - link and excerpt down at the bottom of the page. (thanks to Drew and Chad)

(December 15, 2007)

A bunch of new cover images. Lots of new ones on the German page, one new one on the Dutch page, and the best one is a great cover image for the Russian edition of Libra.

(November 25, 2007)

I learned after the fact of DeLillo's participation in the European Film Festival last week in Lisbon. Added an entry for it on the Events page.

(November 24, 2007)

On hearing of the passing of Norman Mailer today, I've added a short excerpt from a 1995 letter from DeLillo to Mailer to the Libra page, regarding Oswald. I also stuck in a bit of the recent Die Zeit interview referencing Mailer.

(November 10, 2007)

Updated some links on the Interviews page, including reviving long dead links to the 1997 Gerald Howard and Jonathan Bing pieces.

Also updated the Links page, and added a link to the DeLillo Society mailing list on Yahoo Groups.

And - stuck a new image (45 rpm) onto the Odds and Ends page, along with updating some links there.

Finally - updated Events page for a happening on Sept 9, 2007 not previously noted.

(November 10, 2007)

Added notes for the new short Play entitled "The Word for Snow" that premiered last week in Chicago. Also put in a new entry on the DeLillo/Lish connection on Odds and Ends (scroll down to the bottom to find it.

(November 4, 2007)

Added a new interview with a link and a couple excerpts (translated from the German), that ran on October 11 in Die Zeit (thanks to Daniel!).

(November 3, 2007)

Posted news of a current production of 'Valparaiso' in Long Beach, CA on Valparaiso Productions. Also added a new page for the Dutch editions of DeLillo novels that I've been able to track down.

(October 6, 2007)

Posted news of another DeLillo reading in NYC on Sept 26, and updated with new details the new one-act play being performed in Chicago in October, all on the Events page.

(Sept 22, 2007)

Posted news of a DeLillo reading in NYC on Sept 24, on Events. (thanks to Bosh on this one!)

(August 20, 2007)

Several bits of news today:

A good DeLillo interview ran in the July 2007 Guernica magazine - details and link on the Interviews page. (thanks to Arnaud for this one!)
News of an End Zone film - see Odds & Ends.
News of a new DeLillo one-act play to debut in Chicago in Oct/Nov - see Events for more details.

(August 7, 2007)

Posted news of a production of Valparaiso up now in Washington DC, on Valparaiso Productions and Events.

(July 4, 2007)

Several updates today:

A DeLillo interview ran on NPR on June 20 - online link provided on the DeLillo on Radio page.
Info on the Falling Man photograph added to the Falling Man Media Bandwagon.
A couple photos (of books) added to the Novels page, along with a link to a New York magazine guide to the DeLillo oeuvre.

(June 29, 2007)

A bunch more reviews (all with links to the full original) added to the Falling Man Media Bandwagon.

(June 13, 2007)

A few updates today:

Linked to a New Yorker article on the Harry Ransom Center archives in the Bibliography, and excerpted a bit for the DeLillo on Writing page.
Added a cover image for the 1986 Vintage edition of Ratner's Star.
Created a page for the Scribner Classic hardcover edition of Underworld, out this month.

(June 10, 2007)

A few updates today:

A bunch of reviews added to the Falling Man Media Bandwagon.
Events page updated with links to the audio of the PEN event on April 25, 2007.
New page for the Falling Man dust jacket copy and for other Falling Man editions.

(May 21, 2007)

A couple sets of updates today:

Two new listings on the Falling Man Media Bandwagon.
Additional cover images from early 2000s editions in the UK; Americana, Libra & White Noise.

(May 3, 2007)

Lots of DeLillo stuff going on while I was away!

A public interview is scheduled in NYC on May 20th - details on Events.
An excerpt from Falling Man appeared in the April 9 issue of The New Yorker, a link is on the Falling Man page. Also on now on that page, the first line of the book.
And, a excerpt and link to Kirkus Reviews on the Falling Man Media Bandwagon.

(April 7, 2007)

Two pieces of news today. First is that DeLillo will be appearing at a PEN event in NYC on April 25 (details on Events), and second is that a film has been made of the 1990 mini-playlet "The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven" - details on the Plays page (thanks to Trent for this one!).
(March 22, 2007)

Added a cover image for Falling Man.
(March 4, 2007)

Just a bit of news on Falling Man.
(Feb 23, 2007)

Mostly housekeeping changes today, but also a few new images.

Added recent cover images for the following novels: Americana, End Zone, Great Jones Street, Ratner's Star, White Noise, Libra & Mao II. (Mostly the Penguin editions).

Changed the link on The Triumph of Death to a Wikipedia entry on the painting, and have removed the image from my site.

Separated 2004 and 2005 New Additions onto separate pages.
(Jan 1, 2007)

A couple items today. First off, a brief description of Falling Man is now available, from the Scribner catalog (thanks to Michael). Also added a couple great cover images to the Spanish translations page!
(Dec 22, 2006)

A couple unlikely items added to the Odds and Ends page... a YouTube video dropping knowledge on DeLillo and White Noise; and a NYC theater group doing a Great Jones Street-inspired production
(Dec 12, 2006)

It now appears definitive that DeLillo's next novel is titled Falling Man, and is due out in June 2007. Updated the home page as well as the Events page, created a Falling Man page and revived the What's Next page.

Also added information on a 2007 production of Love-Lies-Bleeding to be held in Sydney, Australia. Details on the Love-Lies-Bleeding Productions page.
(Nov 12, 2006)

Today I discovered that a new introduction written by DeLillo appears in new Penguin printings of Libra. It's called "Assassination Aura." Updated the Bibliography as well.
(Oct 24, 2006)

An interview with DeLillo that appeared in the program for the Steppenwolf production of Love-Lies-Bleeding is online; see Interviews for details. (Thanks to Jackie for the link).
(Oct 23, 2006)

Posted news of a production of Love-Lies-Bleeding that is currently in production in Boise, Idaho. Details on the Love-Lies-Bleeding Productions page.
(Oct 21, 2006)

Updated the LitCrit page to mark the publication of Joseph Dewey's Beyond Grief and Nothing, a new critical study on DeLillo. Also made a few changes to the home page to get things up-to-date.
(Sept 6, 2006)

I see it's been awhile since the last update! Two items today: Valparaiso is on stage in my hometown of Portland right now, and I found this oddity: a cover design for Ratner's Star that was never used.
(Sept 1, 2006)

A bit of the conversation with Greil Marcus coming in the June issue of The Believer is online; details on the Interviews page. Also did a few updates to the Events page, mostly with regard to the Telluride Film Festival in Sept. 2005, which is where the conversation with Marcus took place. Finally the addition of a volume of Italian literary criticism on DeLillo to the Italian page.
(June 7, 2006)

I note DeLillo's comments on the occasion of the death of Gilbert Sorrentino on the Writing page, and I've also added a bit more detail on the recent NYT "Best American Fiction" survey on the Odds and Ends page.
(May 31, 2006)

I've set up a new separate Productions of Love-Lies-Bleeding page, with some new info on the Chicago production, and also added information on the New York Times list of Best American Fiction of the last 23 years that put Underworld at number two on the Odds and Ends page. While I was at it I listed the result on the Underworld Media page, and removed most of the dead links there.
(May 19, 2006)

A couple additions to the Interviews page, and the addition of the London premier to the 'Valparaiso' Productions page.
(May 1, 2006)

Update to the Events page to note that DeLillo will be appearing to sign books at the Steppenwolf in Chicago on May 6.
(April 26, 2006)

A new listing in the Media Watch for Love-Lies-Bleeding, with some quotes from DeLillo.
(April 13, 2006)

A new listing in the Lit Crit page - Peter Boxall's Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction is forthcoming in May.
(April 3, 2006)

More new stuff. First off, a new page for the Hungarian editions of DeLillo's novels.

Also, updates to the "Game 6" page, adding reviews from Boston and New York.

And, updated the Interviews page to include the two published versions of what appear to be a single interview with John Freeman.
(March 14, 2006)

Several updates today! DeLillo did a brief radio interview with the UK's BBC Today show on March 1, and I've listed it on the DeLillo on Radio page (with link to the interview, which will be online for a few more days). Then I placed a 30 second excerpt on the Love-Lies-Bleeding page on the genesis of the play.

Also added information for a new Lit Crit book on DeLillo, entitled Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise.

Last but not least I put a new DeLillo image up on the home page.
(March 2, 2006)

Dropped in a link to a good article from Australia on Love-Lies-Bleeding with some DeLillo quotes.
(Feb 21, 2006)

The general opening of "Game 6" is coming in March. I've added new information to the home page and the Game 6 page, with links to the film website (where they're running a contest to win tickets to the premiere on March 9, 2006 in New York City).
(Feb 10, 2006)

News of a forthcoming study of DeLillo's work, entitled Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, by Joseph Dewey. More details on the Lit Crit page.
(Feb 7, 2006)

I've created a "Game 6" page, now that the film is being released in March. I also updated the Events page with the Boise production of "Love-Lies-Bleeding", and updated the main page, plays, and the bibliography for recent changes.
(Jan 2, 2006)

Updated the Love-Lies-Bleeding page to add the correct photographer of the cover shot, and to add material on the very first performance of the play, which was back in May, 2005.
(Jan 1, 2006)

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