Speak, Poetry: Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality ...

The bedside phone in 6 Columbus, my New York hotel, rang twice. Then a familiar voice said: 'You're seeing Don today. I'll join you for lunch afterwards.' And that was how my interview with Don DeLillo began. Looking back, I see that there could hardly be ... Yet behind the unflustered calm of the artist, there's the older man's consciousness of age. DeLillo is now in his early 70s. In his most recent book, Point Omega, there are references to 'time' on almost every page. ...