num_pages: 464
description: Whats a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And whats 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 hes 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 shelfs worth of his literary models and 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.
language: English
title: The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
publisher: Doubleday