Gawker actually made me LOL last week when, in a doodad about Osama bin Laden's 1979 car trip across the US, they said "And a Don Delillo novel is born." Well, not LOL, so much as nod appreciatively - wryly, even. Well, to hop a meme train of good Delillo topix, I have it on good 
authority that Cheap Trick drummer Bun E Carlos's cousin was one of the hostages in the Iranian Hostage Crisis Throwdown on 1979-80. And a good Delillo plot this would be! Sort of a Great Jones Street (rock novel) meets Mao II (hostages, etc)...
authority that Cheap Trick drummer Bun E Carlos's cousin was one of the hostages in the Iranian Hostage Crisis Throwdown on 1979-80. And a good Delillo plot this would be! Sort of a Great Jones Street (rock novel) meets Mao II (hostages, etc)...Sample sentences:
Wan Japanese fans proffer autograph books to American gods.
The cacophony of the assembled label staff is, with a glance, hushed,
snuffed.
He turns to Rick and Robin and smiles a grain alcohol smile.
Tom Werman arrives and speaks of lawns, cars, items.
Dream Police: thought police.
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