Don DeLillo, The Silence (2020)

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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...
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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...
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You've read a Richard Powers book! He wrote The Overstory. And Danielewski wrote House of Leaves.
 
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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.
 
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The reviews sound promising and I'm glad it's short. He seems better when he's more economical.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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