DeLillo in Dublin

[joeallonby]

on 5/27/03 8:51 AM, Peter Fellows-McCully at pfm at anam.com wrote:

> 
> Went to hear Don Delillo read from Cosmopolis and take some questions
> last night. Most questions centred around earlier works. Shortest answer
> of the night: "What was Underworld about?" Answer "Conflict".
> 
> Also struck by the paralells between DeLillo and JG Ballard. Presidents
> being shot, large white american cars, surgical scars on bodies and the
> general air of dystopia. When DeLillo spoke of these things last night
> he sounded like a cross between Crash and the Atrocity Exhibition.
> 
> pfm
> 
> 
I always wanted to ask Delillo about Oliver Stone's JFK, which I thought was
based more upon Libra than Garrison's book. Did anybody bring that up?

Joe