Thom Shackleford & Tom MoodyThom Shackleford & Tom Moody

Thom Shackleford graduated from the University of Auckland with a double degree in marketing and property before realising he’d made a huge mistake. He now studies creative writing, and works in social housing. He was born in Auckland in 1990. Tom Moody is an Auckland writer and academic, and serves as head of the US fiction bureau at The Spinoff. He was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1953.

DeLillo Week: Probably the most brilliant literary conversation ever recorded in New Zealand, as two men of letters discuss Don DeLillo

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The world is a fucked-up place with terrorists controlling the narrative (and the images), and distracted, anxious, over-fed America slouching towards a Trump apocalypse. Don DeLillo anticipated the way things have turned out; to mark the publication of his latest book, the Spinoff Review of Books devotes the entire week to the work of maybe the world’s … Read more