The Ecstasy of Influence

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times -bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens , 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. Klappentext Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions. Zusammenfassung Offers an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. This book simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Lethem
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780099563433
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956343-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Biography and non-fiction prose