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The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.

Author Jonathan Lethem

Format Hardcover

Publisher Doubleday

Category Essays and Letters

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What�s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what�s contemporary culture sup�posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the �white elephant� 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 he�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 shelf�s worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and oth�ers. 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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  • Release Date: 2011-11-08
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780385534956

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