NP: DeLillo on Trump's America

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I am curious. What happened to DeLillo after he published "Libra"?

Kubrick and Southern were, of course, right about everything.

> I mean, for Pete's sake! Look at what happened when Delillo DARED to
> write his JFK-conspiracy-adjacent novel, LIBRA! Is it any wonder he'd
> be a little
> gun-shy about wading into these reeking, Satanic fever swamps?!
> 
> Maybe in two or three decades we'll be allowed to look back, like we
> looked back on Strangelove not so long ago and realized "Holy shit...
> Kubrick and Southern were more right than wrong about EVERYTHING." And
> then maybe reputations will be rehabilitated (post mortem for most of
> 'em)... and we can all go on being superior and snide again about
> whatever fresh Hell we'll be enduring by then.