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Monday, March 31, 2003

The Pitch: It's like Dead Poets Society meets Naked Lunch!  

Borders - Feature - A Day in the Life of the Present: Don DeLillo on Cosmopolis

What is the point of writing and reading novels? Does it make sense to ask such a question?

DD: Writers write because they have to. There doesn't have to be a point. The most talented young men and women are still drawn to the novel as the most spacious means of expression, and the most challenging as well. Why do readers read? Not for answers. The novel deals with questions that have no answers. But it remains the deepest route into the landscape of our motives and souls.

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