Don DeLillo, The Silence (2020)

[william kent]

His publisher's released some info about this and he's yet again managed to preempt current events. I don't think you even need to like him to acknowledge that it's eerie how prescient he can be and how many times he has been. Apparently this new one's about a group of people stuck in an apartment together on Super Bowl Sunday 2022 after some event which has shut down all digital connections...

The Silence

From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gath...

www.simonandschuster.com

 

[william kent]

His antennas are exceptionally tuned.

 

[IdleRich]

As long as it doesn't start with a hundred pages about a single throw in American Football or some such...

 

[william kent]

It's 128 pages, so I think the chances of that are slim.

 

[IdleRich]

You'd expect the review to mention it

 

[IdleRich]

I mean you would expect the review to mention the NFL bit if it took up 100 of the 128 pages...

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Looking for that, found this

Rewiring the Real | Columbia University Press

Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these develo... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

Delillo! Gaddis! Some other authors!

 

[william kent]

You've read a Richard Powers book! He wrote The Overstory. And Danielewski wrote House of Leaves.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Yeah, Powers rang that bell, thought it might be him, and I know of house of leaves, of course.

I like the sound of The Silence, keen as I am to see the internet turned off every Sunday in order that we may return to God.

 

[william kent]

The reviews sound promising and I'm glad it's short. He seems better when he's more economical.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

I've an outline for a novel now, just need to find time to shade it in with thousands more words. I hope it doesn't take an extended stay in Jura to write it.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

I'll see how it goes and then share some more when I'm ready. Good to have a project, a big magnet to align the disordered iron filings of the mind.