I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role o…

Don DeLillo
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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become. ✨ Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). Conversations with Don DeLillo, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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