Don DeLillo: ‘I think of myself as the kid from the Bronx’

De Lillo is a great writer, his novels are intelligent and thought-provoking. I've read White Noise many years ago; to this day, I consider it the best investigation that I've ever read about Death. We all have to die sooner or later and yet, interestingly, death is the great taboo of our modern society.

Note that cryogenics just refers to the study of very low temperatures, and cryogenic liquids are used in a vast number of scientific and industrial devices. The topic of the book is more specifically cryonics, the (speculative) preservation of people using low temperature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics

A good "documentary" on DeLillo by the BBC in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTePKA1wgc

Musings on terrorism (through the lens of the Kennedy assassination) are even more prescient today.

I am disappointed that the interview did not include more of DeLillo's motivation for choosing to research and depict cryonics, or his personal take on it.

Their underhanded marketing ploy worked ... now I have to buy the book!

"I'm still, I'm still Donny from the Bronx..."