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Libra don7/6/2023 Let’s devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second.” The character is Nicholas Branch, hired by the CIA to write “the secret history of the assassination”-the real version, for Agency eyes only. “Let’s call a meeting to analyze the blur. “Six point nine seconds of heat and light,” muses a character in “Libra,” Don DeLillo’s vivid and haunting 1988 novel about the assassination of John F. The following essay by NBCC poetry award winner Troy Jollimore, on Don DeLillo’s Libra, a finalist for the 1988 NBCC award in fiction, is part of the NBCC’s “In Retrospect” series on Critical Mass, in which critics and writers revisit NBCC award winners and finalists from previous years.
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