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Acclaimed writer DeLillo gives rare reading at Princeton U.
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(The Daily Princetonian) (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. -- Don DeLillo, the
award-winning author of "White Noise" and "Underworld," made a rare
public appearance on the Princeton University campus Wednesday.
Bespectacled and wearing a tweed jacket over a woody green button-
down, DeLillo sat down for an interview at 185 Nassau St. after a
lunch discussion with creative writing students.
He spoke slowly and quietly, actually whispering at first, to preserve
his voice for his public lecture in McCosh 50 as the 2002-2003 Belknap
Visitor in the Humanities.
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