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The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
A work of Non-fiction by Jonathan Lethem
Subgenres:
- Essay Collection,
- Literary Criticism,
- Memoir
This book is for you if you're into...
- Deep dives into pop culture from Bob Dylan to cyberculture
- Writers reflecting on their own creative journeys and influences
- Essays that blend personal history with cultural criticism
What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed 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 others.
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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