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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Discovering Ulysses

End of semester business has kept me from responding to comment threads and from posting much lately. Apologies. Meanwhile, here's an excerpt from a nice take on Don DeLillo (whose 9/11 novel, Falling Man, will soon appear) in The Guardian:

Discovering Ulysses as a teenager made him want to be a writer, but his influences and references have always been as much from film and painting and music (European movies, Abstract Expressionism and the jazz of Parker and Mingus) as from novels. He went to a Jesuit college where he majored in 'communication arts'. He had a job as a copywriter at Ogilvy and Mather and freelance jobs writing for furniture catalogues before giving up and following his vocation.
Posted at: 5/05/2007 11:35:00 AM