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‘There’s this paradoxical nostalgia where even though yi suffered, yi miss it.’
Memoir by Graeme Armstrong.
‘She boils her sentences down to high-sucrose sweeties and calibrates her tone for maximum engagement.’
Fiction by Natasha Brown.
‘The monstrous years of my late teens lay lined up alongside the rest of my life like bullets in a gun.’
A story by Sophie Mackintosh.
‘Without waiting for me she removes her white shirt. Each button a piece of my own spine, undone.’
Fiction by K Patrick.
‘I followed him onto the dancefloor and he put his hands on my hips as if he’d known me for at least an hour.’
Fiction by Saba Sams.
Don DeLillo is the author of more than fifteen novels, as well as plays, essays and short fiction. His novels include White Noise which won the 1985 National Book Award, Mao II which won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award and most recently Zero K. He was awarded the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
More about the author →‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
Don DeLillo and Paul Auster discuss their work in Granta 117: Horror, ‘impoverished characters’ and living in and writing about New York.
‘She lay in a kind of timeless drift, a mindwork spiral, carried on half-formed thoughts. She passed into a false sleep and then was listening again. She opened her eyes.’
’I was sweating, I was faint. The yellow on the walls was brilliant and burning.‘
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