![]() What planted the seed? What got me going was the idea of a blank screen. Still, “The Silence” feels attuned to current anxieties. It wasn’t going to stay, that’s for sure. I’m shocked that an editor or whoever had the chutzpah to jam anything, let alone a Covid-19 mention, into one of your books. But I said, “There’s no reason for that.” Somebody else could have decided that it made it more contemporary. ![]() Why did you take it out? I didn’t put Covid-19 in there. Then I was told there were changes to the book and was sent a second galley. In the first galley copy I read, there’s a scene in which a character is reciting disastrous events and mentions Covid-19. Let me ask about something that’s not in “The Silence,” at least not anymore. “I don’t think it’s a question of better or worse. “The way our culture moves along changes the way all of us think,” DeLillo said. They will very likely figure again in regards to his new novel, “The Silence,” in which a mysterious event on Super Bowl Sunday 2022 causes screens everywhere to go blank. His enduring sensitivity to the zeitgeist is such that words like “prophetic” and “oracular” figure frequently in discussion of his work. For nearly 50 years and across 17 novels, among them classics like “White Noise,” “Libra” and “Underworld,” DeLillo, who is 83, has summoned the darker currents of the American experience with maximum precision and uncanny imagination. ![]() ![]() This has long been the stuff of Don DeLillo’s masterly fiction. ![]()
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