[1] An audiobook version was released the same day, narrated by Laurie Anderson, Jeremy Bobb, Marin Ireland, Robin Miles, Jay O. Sanders and Michael Stuhlbarg.

[2] In 2022, on the night of the Super Bowl, Jim Kripps and his wife Tessa Berens are flying from Paris to their home in Newark, New Jersey when their plane crash-lands.

In their Manhattan apartment, married couple Diane Lucas and Max Stenner are waiting for Jim and Tessa to arrive to their Super Bowl party.

[4] In February 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that producer Uri Singer acquired the screen rights to The Silence.

Singer also produced Noah Baumbach's 2022 film White Noise, an adaptation of Delillo's novel of the same name.