It took me a long time to develop this. There were discussions about adapting End Zone, and DeLillo has written an original screenplay for the film Game 6. In a significant sense, the Library of Congress Prize is the culmination of their efforts and a tribute to their memory."[50]. I will see if it continues as I finish the book. On July 24, 2009, Entertainment Weekly announced that the director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence, Naked Lunch) would adapt Cosmopolis for the screen, with "a view to eventually direct. I don't think my first novel would have been published today as I submitted it. In a February 21, 2010, interview with The Times, DeLillo reaffirmed his belief in the validity and importance of the novel in a technology- and media-driven age, offering a more optimistic opinion of the future of the novel than his contemporary Philip Roth had done in a recent interview: It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience....For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. I like that DeLillo's writing (on the whole) is a reminder that not all postmodernism has to stylistically complex or difficult to navigate. I may have had novels in my head but very little on paper and no personal goals, no burning desire to achieve some end. If I had to classify myself, it would be in the long line of modernists, from James Joyce through William Faulkner and so on. I could think up games for hours at a time. I've seen some reviews that mention Beckett and Pinter, but I don't know what to say about that. I may have had novels in my head but very little on paper and no personal goals, no burning desire to achieve some end. White Noise was arguably a major breakthrough both commercially and artistically for DeLillo, earning him a National Book Award for Fiction[25] and a place in the canon of contemporary postmodern novelists. All of Them", "Emma Cline on Fictionalizing a #MeToo Villain", "American Academy of Arts and Letters Members", "PEN American Center Names Award Winners", "Don DeLillo becomes first writer to receive the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction", DeLillo 'Featured Authors' page at NY Times, Don DeLillo interview with Granta Magazine, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_DeLillo&oldid=972237002, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century American short story writers, 21st-century American short story writers, Articles with dead external links from November 2013, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2015, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, A fictionalized version of DeLillo makes a few appearances as a minor character in A.M. Homes' 2012 novel, A fictionalized version of a younger, pre-fame DeLillo during his career as an advertising copywriter in New York, appears briefly as a minor character in, "Spaghetti and Meatballs" (1965) (First published in, "Coming Sun.Mon.Tues." [27] In 2005 DeLillo said "White Noise" was a fine choice, adding, "Once a title is affixed to a book, it becomes as indelible as a sentence or a paragraph."[27]. [5] Reflecting on his childhood in The Bronx, DeLillo said he was "always out in the street. [67] Bruce Bawer famously condemned DeLillo's novels insisting they weren't actually novels at all but "tracts, designed to batter us, again and again, with a single idea: that life in America today is boring, benumbing, dehumanized...It's better, DeLillo seems to say in one novel after another, to be a marauding murderous maniac – and therefore a human – than to sit still for America as it is, with its air conditioners, assembly lines, television sets, supermarkets, synthetic fabrics, and credit cards."[68][69].