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Informationen zum Autor JONATHAN LETHEM is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn. . A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker , Harper’s , Rolling Stone , Esquire , and The New York Times , among others. www.jonathanlethem.com Klappentext National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA Best Book of the Year -Austin American-StatesmanIncludes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet" In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces-essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism-which also doubles as a novelist's manifesto, self-portrait, and confession. The result is an insightful, charming, and entertaining grab bag that covers everything from great novels to old films to graffiti to cyberculture. Inhaltsverzeichnis i: My Plan to Begin With My Plan to Begin With, Part One The Used Bookshop Stories The Books They Read Going Under in Wendover Zelig of Notoriety Clerk ii: Dick, Calvino, Ballard: SF and Postmodernism My Plan to Begin With, Part Two Holidays Crazy Friend (Philip K. Dick) What I Learned at the Science-Fiction Convention The Best of Calvino: Against Completism Postmodernism as Liberty Valance The Claim of Time (J. G. Ballard) Give Up iii: Plagiarisms The Ecstasy of Influence The Afterlife of “Ecstasy”/Somatics of Influence Always Crashing in the Same Car Against “Pop” Culture Furniture iv: Film and Comics Supermen!: An Introduction Top-Five Depressed Superheroes The Epiphany Izations Everything Is Broken (Art of Darkness) Godfather IV Great Death Scene ( McCabe & Mrs. Miller ) Kovacs’s Gift Marlon Brando Breaks Missed Opportunities Donald Sutherland’s Buttocks The Drew Barrymore Stories v: Wall Art The Collector (Fred Tomaselli) An Almost Perfect Day (Letter to Bonn) The Billboard Men (Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel) Todd James Writing and the Neighbor Arts Live Nude Models On a Photograph of My Father Hazel vi: 9/11 and Book Tour Nine Failures of the Imagination Further Reports in a Dead Language To My Italian Friends My Egyptian Cousin Cell Phones Proximity People Repeating Myself Bowels of Compassion Stops Advertisements for Norman Mailer White Elephant and Termite Postures in the Life of the Twenty-first-Century Novelist vii: Dylan, Brown, and Others The Genius of James Brown People Who Died The Fly in the Ointment Dancing About Architecture Dylan Interview Open Letter to Stacy (The Go-Betweens) Otis Redding’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Rick James an orchestra of light that was electric viii: Working the Room Bolaño’s 2666 Homely Doom Vibe (Paula Fox) Ambivalent Usurpations (Thomas Berger) Rushmore Versus Abundance Outcastle (Shirley Jackson) Thursday (G. K. Chesterton) My Disappointment Critic/On Bad Faith The American Vicarious (Nathanael West) ix: The Mad Brooklynite Ruckus Flatbush Crunch Rolls Children with Hangovers L. J. Davis Agee’s Brooklyn Breakfast at Brelreck’s The Mad Brooklynite x: What Remains of My Plan Micropsia Zeppelin Parable What Remains of My Plan Memorial Things to Remember...
