In “Game 6,” DeLillo has adapted the hyper-real, postmodern style he fashioned for novels like “Underworld” and “The Body Artist” for his first screenplay. Things do not operate so much in the everyday world as the psychological realm where the inner life meets the street. So anything can and does happen with a logic of its own. Characters appear as if from off-stage and hold forth in wordy speeches more familiar to the theater.

On the eve of the opening of his latest play, and also the night of the fateful game six of the world series in which his beloved Red Sox will fall to the Mets in the most inglorious way, Rogan gets caught in an all-day traffic jam that is a metaphor for his own internal confusion. Although he is a successful playwright, he is fixated on failure, and the Red Sox are his chosen form of suffering. Since the age of six, he has been “carrying them on my shoulders,” and can rattle off a litany of loses and near misses.

The all-day traffic jam was also a major plot device in Cosmopolis, DeLillo’s most recent novel. I love DeLillo—I’ve been obsessed with him for more than ten years—but Cosmopolis was basically 200 pages of nonstop self-parody. Let’s hope the traffic jam device works better in Game 6, at least.

By total coincidence, Michael Keaton is also the star of an upcoming film called White Noise that isn’t based on DeLillo’s genius novel, despite the plot outline on the Keaton film’s IMDb page. The odious hack Barry Sonnenfeld is working on an actual adaptation of DeLillo’s White Noise, which may be released with a different title, if it’s ever actually released.

Last year DeLillo donated his papers to the University of Texas at Austin, of all places, and he’s giving a lecture there on February 10. The lecture is already sold out. I’m enough of a DeLillo geek that I contemplated flying down there for the lecture, especially because I’ve never been to Austin. But I’ll have to miss it.

Since 1996 a smart guy named Curt Gardner has been maintaining an elaborate trove of DeLillo resources at an excellent site called Don DeLillo’s America.