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Category Archives: Don DeLillo
Frank O’Hara, Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney – O’Hara’s Presence in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
Fiction writers from the UK and Ireland seem to be having a Frank O’Hara moment. I wrote about this trend a couple years ago, after noticing that the titles of two books by young British women — Emma Jane … Continue reading
“Neon in Daylight” — New Novel Borrows Title from Frank O’Hara
Another day, another work of fiction borrowing a title from Frank O’Hara’s poetry. I’ve noted examples of this phenomenon before — such as Andrew Sean Greer’s story “It’s a Summer’s Day,” Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel Animals, and Don DeLillo’s short story … Continue reading
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Frank O’Hara and the other Don — DeLillo, not Draper
Frank O’Hara fans know all about the time Don Draper read some lines from the poem “Mayakovsky” on the television show Mad Men (thereby introducing O’Hara’s work to a much wider audience and legions of tweeters). But apparently there’s another famous (and … Continue reading
Posted in Don DeLillo, Fiction, Frank O'Hara, Mad Men
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