
Don DeLillo
Writing
Biography
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of White Noise brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with Libra, a novel about the Kennedy assassination. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Mao II, about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for Underworld, a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Known For

Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
White Noise

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
Cosmopolis

Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Game 6

Based on Don DeLillo's novella "The Body Artist," the film swirls around a self-centered filmmaker who, during a screening of one of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist. Dumping his leading lady and long-time lover, Rey embarks on a wild and delirious affair with the equally willing Laura, who jumps on the back of his motorcycle and rides with him into instantaneous love.
Never Ever
It's the night of the Super Bowl and Jim and his wife Tessa are flying from Paris to their home in Newark, New Jersey when their plane crash-lands. Meanwhile, in their Manhattan apartment, married couple Diane and Max are waiting for Jim and Tessa to arrive to their Super Bowl party. Martin Dekker, one of Diane's former physics students, is the only guest who has arrived. Suddenly, the world's technology systems go dark.
The Silence
A young man drawn into the designs of his tech billionaire father in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to outwit death using cryonics and radical science. The woman who binds these two estranged men submits to the project with mixed emotions, as they all face challenges linking love, life and death.
Zero K

A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.
Nelson Algren Live
From Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up in the Bronx, to the history of the baseball that won the New York Giants the pennant in 1951. Underworld encompasses numerous subplots drawn from American history in the second half of the twentieth century. Described as both postmodernist and a reaction to postmodernism, it examines themes of nuclear proliferation, waste, and the contribution of individual lives to the course of history.
Underworld

Moon travels through a mysterious unexplained world free of adults. Moon meets a scholar turned sage and her translator in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening, based on a play by Don DeLillo. She meets many others who perform for her, show her a film, give her gifts, show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.
Mare’s Nest
DeLillo uses the documentary form to explore the relationships between gunmen and the novelist, words and images, the power of news and the obsession with apocalypse.
Don DeLillo: The Word, The Image, and The Gun
An American risk analyst becomes obsessed with a mysterious language cult seemingly behind a string of unexplained murders in Greece and the Middle East. Obsessed by this ritualistic violence, he searches for an explanation. A journey that begins to take over his life and the lives of those closest to him. As of December 2022, Alex Ross Perry has confirmed his adaptation is not going forward and won't be made.
The Names

After a poem by Emily Dickinson. A collage disaster film and experiment with various zones of materiality: ice, lava, land, sea, and sky. All found footage lifted from the internet.