Jonathan Lethem
Whatâ€™s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And whatâ€™s contemporary culture supÂ­posed to do with novelists? In ,The Ecstasy of Influence,, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the â€œwhite elephantâ€ role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers. , A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any heâ€™s written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelfâ€™s worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and othÂ­ers. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally strong light on himself.
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