DeLillo live

[Mark Kohut]

I saw and heard DeLillo speak at the Carnegie Hall send-off of Norman Mailer's life. 

He looked...his age, healthy, trim, untanned.....he wore unpretentious clothes, looking as he might if friends came to visit him at home. His looks stated: this man's clothes don't make him, he is himself. His voice was simply right, it seems to me in memory. (I hardly noticed it then)

He spoke of how Mailer's work mattered to him......showed him what a novel---a novelist---can say!...Eveything, I believe he actually said....implied anyway. He spoke of Mailer's ambition to say it all...... 

He had notes or papers, but he mostly looked out and spoke naturally. A comfortable speaker--- He was out to communicate as one writer about another who mattered. 

His whole appearance said to me: content, not any trappings, matters. Unlike Norman, I do not have a public persona.