American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

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DeLillo followed White Noise with Libra (1988) a speculative fictionalized take on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald up to the 1963 assassination of John F. I didn’t want to leave behind an enormous mess of papers for family members to deal with.

It's important to write against power corporations the state and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments [.