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‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: Film director Ben Rivers on how Underworld writer’s fan mail led to his latest work books

nOne-year-old girls reciting Don DeLillo’s prose – it sounds like an extreme English slang, but for the filmmaker ben rivers It was the foundation of his new film, and the culmination of an unlikely friendship with the literary giant. DeLillo is an almost mythical figure of contemporary literature. His prose is precisely crafted, his narratives

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Literary Center » How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

Madeleine Schwartz recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan and others I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with me being asked questions about what’s happening at home. The world is watching the changing politics in the

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