Falling Man

Do you wait for time to just allow you space and distance? Or do you get in in some other way. Don Delillo did it brilliantly with the "Falling Man," literally, on the first page, the dust has already fallen. I chose to do it differently, on an...

In this article: New York, Colum McCann, The Bronx, Philippe Petit, Don DeLillo, World Trade Center, and National Book Award

...September 11 and the Novel," Kristiaan Versluys explores fictional portrayals of 9/11. Among the works he probes are Don DeLillo's "Falling Man," Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers," Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and...

In this article: John Updike, Ghent University, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, Terrorist, and Belgium

...be DeLillo's fifteenth novel published under his own name and his first published work of fiction since his widely praised 2007 novel Falling Man. The 160 page novel is to be initially published in hardcover by DeLillo's long time publishers...

In this article: Don DeLillo and New York

Falling Man is the title of Don DeLillo's most recent novel, published May 15, 2007. An excerpt from the novel appeared in short story form as "Still Life" in the April 9 2007, issue of The New Yorker magazine. Falling Man concerns a...

In this article: Don DeLillo, Underworld, Alzheimer's, The New Yorker, White Noise, and Richard Drew

...much like the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier." Falling Man , a novel by Don DeLillo, is about the events of 9/11. The Falling Man in the novel refers to a performance artist recreating the events of the picture seen above. DeLillo claims that...

In this article: Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Esquire, Lyle Owerko, and World Trade Center

...now vying for your attention are fiction's eminences grises (John Updike, Terrorist; Martin Amis, The Second Plane; Don DeLillo, Falling Man), a middle-aged blockbuster (Jay McInerney, The Good Life), some of the Aughts' most noteworthy...

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Whatever comes to mind: I'm getting some modern classical projects up, some Canons by Kenneth Fuchs (inspired by Don deLillo's "Falling Man"), "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" by Manuel deFalla, Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations." I also...

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...and on that score, Let the Great World Spin stands as a kind of corrective to Don DeLillo's remorselessly precise and punishing Falling Man. Call it Floating Man, for it is a book so humane in its understanding of original sin that...

In this article: Philippe Petit, Random House, Rudolf Nureyev, Don DeLillo, Man on Wire, and World Trade Center

...warned of 9/11 all along. He has now, since 2001, written two noticeably slimmer novels, featuring, it has to be said, fewer Big Ideas. Falling Man, which opens amid the dust and confusion in that moment between the collapsing of the two twin...

In this article: Don DeLillo and Las Vegas

...this won't bother DeLillo's many admirers, and perhaps they will be able to find virtues in Falling Man that have eluded me. Fine. But this novel never pulls the reader in, never engages the reader with the minds, hearts and lives of its...

In this article: Don DeLillo, World Trade Center, and Alzheimer's