![]() ![]() ![]() “As I was working on Libra,” DeLillo told an interviewer, “it occurred to me that a lot of tendencies in my first eight novels seemed to be collecting around the dark center of the assassination.” By the time he set to work on his first direct treatment of the assassination, an essay published in Rolling Stone under the title “American Blood: A Journey Through the Labyrinth of Dallas and JFK,” DeLillo had already written at length of violence, conspiracy, and the seductive lure of paranoia. Kennedy made him into the writer he became – shaped, that is, the novelist who wrote Libra (1988), a charged historical novel about the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. Don DeLillo once suggested that the assassination of President John F. ![]()
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