The Ecstasy of Influence

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<p>This volume sheds light on an array of topics from<b>sex in cinema</b>to<b>drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring</b>and<b>Marlon Brando</b>. Then there are investigations of a shelf's worth of Jonathan Letham's literary models and contemporaries:<b>Norman Mailer, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood,</b>and others. And, writing about<b>Brooklyn</b>,<b>his father</b>, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, one of the greats of contemporary American literature sheds an equally strong light on himself.</p><p>In<b><i>The Ecstasy of Influence</i></b>, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the 'white elephant' role of the<b>writer as public intellectual</b>, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.</p><p>Funny and unfettered,<b><i>The Ecstasy of Influence</i></b>simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, the primacy of the writer in the cultural marketplace, and the way the author's own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.</p>

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Jonathan Lethem<b></b>is the<i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of nine novels, including<i>Dissident Gardens</i>,<i>The Fortress of Solitude</i>and<i>Motherless Brooklyn</i>. 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<i>New Yorker</i>,<i>Harpers</i>,<i>Rolling Stone, Esquire</i>and the<i>New York Times</i>, among others.

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