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Outstanding historian of the modern world with a trenchantly clear-sighted take on international politics
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5. Who are the most overrated contemporary writers in the world?
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9. Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear'
Don DeLillo talks to Robert McCrum about living the American dream, growing old and how an art installation inspired his latest novel, Point Omega
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10. Guardian book club: John Mullan meets Bret Easton Ellis
Audio (55min 54sec), 6 Aug 2010:
The author of American Psycho talks to John Mullan about materialism, violence, and how the novel sprang from the rage he felt when he moved to New York