The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.

The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.

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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0385534957_Good
ReleaseDate 2011-11-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385534956

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