Great suggestions in this essay about "temporal displacement, time loops, time skips, time slips or parallel timelines." https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/gotta-get-back-in-time-the-current-explosion-of-time-travel-novels-goes-beyond-sci-fi-and-fantasy/
If #time is of interest, you can check out a volume of essays I edited, published by #CambridgeUP, that takes up this issue in #US #literature from its #indigenous roots to #DonDeLillo, from the #SalemWitchTrials to the #graphic novel, #RichardMcGuire's #Here. I also wrote a book on #tempo(e)rality with, you guessed it, #Poe as the (wobbly) center.

Jack Gladney’s German lessons:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/05/03/jack-gladneys-german-lessons/

#books #reading #DonDeLillo #WhiteNoise #German #language #LanguageLearning #blog

Seems a good time to reread White Noise. I love DeLillo's gentle gear-shifts from the everyday to the transcendent

#books #bookstodon #reading #DonDeLillo #WhiteNoise #family

Re: #WhiteNoise #DonDeLillo #NoahBaumbach

Ugh, this couldn’t break through some perceived ceiling for me. I have no idea why it’s so revered. I have no idea why it’s picked for required academic reading (I had to read it in university…) I even gave it another chance when I heard Noah Baumbach was adapting it…

And now that I’ve watched it, it’s still so painfully mid to me. Reading and viewing time I’ll never get back ☹️

The best description of the Warren Commission to date:

"This is the megaton novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to lowa City and lived to be a hundred.

This is the Joycean Book of America, remember--the novel in which nothing is left out."

#LIBRA #DonDelillo

I had no idea #DonDeLillo's novel, White Noise, was made into a movie. #AdamDriver seems like good casting. I just may have to sign up for Netflix.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/06/1147073826/white-noise-review-noah-baumbach-don-delillo-adam-driver-greta-gerwig

Time to watch White Noise at last. The book is dear to my heart (and I wrote my first research paper about it, you can read it below if you care, it wasn't good).
Not sure what the film is gonna be like...
https://www.liminalweb.site/hitler-elvis-same-stuff-simulacrum-in-don-delillos-white-noise/

#literature #cinema #DonDelillo #whitenoise

My own reward for finishing a story. This story was 3-book-reward tough.
#PsychHorror story about #ColonialTrauma and #ColonialDisplacement. Will submit tomorrow, fingers crossed someone will like it.

Kindred #OctaviaButler
White Noise, #DonDelillo
In The Dream House #CarmenMariaMachado.
@bookstodon
#bookstodon #amreading

Reading #Cosmopolis has made me want to revisit Cronenberg's film. I didn't care for it on first viewing, though it has some great lines from DeLillo. This one is my open letter to Silicon Valley
#SarahGadon #DonDeLillo #DavidCronenberg #film

"Reputation is a delicate thing. A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable." —Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

Late to this one, but it feels weirdly prophetic. It's a strange kind of fantasia, using gorgeous language to convey gloomy ideas through a protagonist as compelling as he is repellent

#books #reading #bookstodon #DonDeLillo #BookDesign #BookQuotes

White Noise is not my favorite novel, but it's probably the one that has been the most impactful in my life, as the movie adaptation is coming out this week on #Netflix, I thought it'd be a good idea to dig through my archives and republish the very first research paper I wrote in graduate school, which incidentally was about the novel. It may not be a masterpiece, but I believe it has some interesting bits.
Enjoy.

https://liminalweb.substack.com/p/simulacrum-in-don-delillos-white?sd=pf

#WhiteNoise #literature #postmodernism #DonDeLillo

I may or may not have mentioned that I found my old research papers from grad school on a hard drive. So I have decided to publish them on my blog.
Here is the first one. It's the first one I wrote, but it also happens to be about #WhiteNoise by #DonDeLillo. You may have heard that the movie adaptation is coming to #Netflix very soon (is it next week? probably).

I don't know if it's going to be an interesting read for you, but just in case, here it is:
https://www.liminalweb.site/hitler-elvis-same-stuff-simulacrum-in-don-delillos-white-noise/

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. #Bookstodon. Here are some of mine: #neilgaiman #paolobacigalupi #paulabrackston #margaretatwood #dondelillo #catsparks #RayBradbury #williamgibson #dancheon

Okay, doing the #bookstodon thing of listing 5 to 7 of some authors I love… #neilgaiman #paolobacigalupi #angelacarter #denisjohnson #margaretatwood #paulabrackston #dondelillo

@goblemark is here and it makes me want to toot about his brilliant essay on #DonDelillo's #Cosmopolis in this volume (coming out in paperback in February, 2023): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/question-of-time/delillo-slowing-down/65F18E02CE8DC17F8645FCF157B63FAF

#War is the ultimate realization of modern technology
#DonDelillo