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Abstract
Since the early nineteenth century, writers of literature have engaged in publicity interviews, complicating the production, reception, and dissemination of their autobiographical work. Developments in communication technologies such as the newspaper, the recording devices used in radio and television, and later the invention of the internet, shifted the dynamics of the interview. Consequently, twenty-first-century writers use these mediascape channels to interact with their audiences in more direct and self-referential ways. The internet increased the accessibility of a writer's biography for readers and scholars, creating an opportunity for authors to extend the frame devices of their fiction to the creative spaces of the online and print publicity outlets. To control the dissemination of his work in the internet age, the American writer Don DeLillo employs strategies of self-presentation to frame his autobiographical writing and his fiction, as well as the publicity events that have played their part in his career.