Status Updates From Joueurs

"The future has collapsed right in on us…It looks like waves and waves of static. It's being beamed in ahead of schedule…It looks like seedy people from Mercer Street…We're sitting watching in the intimacy and comfort of our bedroom and they've got their loft and their camera and it gets shown because that's the law. As soon as they see a camera they take off their clothes. It used to be people waved."

On pace

Third year running of reading a whole book on NYE

"I go to the library. Whatever you want to make, once you know how to use the library, it's right there."

It is increasingly clear that this was the first serious foray into what would emerge with his magnificent 1980s novels and ultimately Underworld. It suffers from a close comparison to those books, but plenty of writers never produce anything this menacing.

A dress rehearsal for DeLillo’s greater novels in terms of theme, setting, and dialogue so far. The prologue was strangely unnerving.