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More Alive and Less Lonely


A work of Non-fiction


Subgenres:

  • Essay Collection,
  • Literary Criticism,
  • Books About Books
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Deep dives into overlooked books and cult authors
  • Literary essays mixing personal discovery with sharp criticism
  • Cross-genre explorations from Dickens to Philip K. Dick
Publisher Description

From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books.

More Alive and Less Lonely collects over a decade of Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appreciations of forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp critical essays, and personal accounts of his most extraordinary literary encounters and discoveries.

Only Lethem, with his love of cult favorites and the canon alike, can write with equal insight into classic writers like Charles Dickens and Herman Melville, modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Thomas Pynchon, graphic novelist Chester Brown, and science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick.

Sharing his infectious love for books of all kinds, More Alive and Less Lonely is a bracing voyage of literary discovery and an essential addition to every booklover's shelf.

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