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More alive and less lonely : on books and writers / Jonathan Lethem ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Boucher.

by Lethem, Jonathan.

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Melville House, [2017]

Literature -- History and criticism -- Essays.

Authors and readers -- Essays.

Books and reading -- Essays.

Authorship -- Essays.

Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Essays.

American essays -- 21st century.

9781612196039 (hc.)

xix, 300 pages ; 23 cm.

I. Engulf and Devour -- the Loneliest book I've Read -- Footnote on Sylvie Selig -- Engulf and Devour -- The Figure in the Castle -- The Greatest Animal Novelist of All Time -- The Counter-Roth -- II. It Can Still Take Me There -- The Only Human Superhero -- Forget This Introduction -- What's Old Is New (NYRB) -- to Catch a Beat -- Footnote -- III. Objects in Furious Motion -- Fierce Attachments -- Attention Drifting Beautifully (Donald Barthelme) -- Rock of Ages -- My Hero: Karl Ove Knausgaard -- A New Life (Malamud) -- A Mug's Game -- Steven Millhauser's Ghost Stories -- IV. Lost Worlds -- The Mechanics of Fear, Revisited -- On the Yard -- Walter Tevis's Mockingbird -- Everything Said and Exhausted (Daniel Fuchs) -- How Did I Get Here and What Could It Possibly Mean? (Bernard Wolfe) -- 'Twas Ever Thus (Tanguy Viel's Beyond Suspicion) -- Russell Greenan's Geniuses -- V. Ecstatic Depictions of Consciousness -- Consumed -- Dog Soldiers -- Bizarro World -- On Two Sentences from Charles D'Ambrosio's "Screenwriter" -- Remarks Perhaps of Some Assistance to the REader of Joseph McElroy's Ancient History: A Paraphase -- VI. Thomas Berger and I Have Never Met (Ishiguro, Berger and PKD) -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Butler Did It -- Footnote on Ishiguro -- High Priest of the Paranoids -- The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike -- To Ubik -- Life After Wartime -- Thomas Berger -- Letters from the Invisible Man: My Correspondence with Thomas Berger -- Footnote on Berger -- VII. OK You Mugs -- Heavy Petting -- More Than Night -- You Talkin' to Me? -- New York Characters -- Lost and Found -- The Original Piece of Wood I Left in Your Head: A Conversation Between Director Spike Jonze and Critic Perkus Tooth -- Johnny's Graying Teenaged Sense of What Isn't Boring (Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002) -- Close REading (Ricks on Dylan) -- Rod Serling -- Mutual Seduction -- VIII. Fan Mail -- Carved in Need -- New Old Friend (A Toast to Kenneth Koch) -- Eyes Wide Open -- Something About a Slice -- Pynchonopolis -- To Cosmicomics -- Anthony Burgess Answers Two Questions -- A Furtive Exchange -- Books Are Sandwiches.

"A collection of bestselling author Jonathan Lethem's essays on the subject of writers and writing. Picking up where his collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, here is more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing, including: impassioned appeals for forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp essays, and personal accounts of his most extraordinary literary encounters and discoveries. Only Lethem, with his love of cult favorites and the canon alike, can write with equal insight about the stories of modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Salman Rushdie, graphic novelist Chester Brown, science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick, and classic icons like Moby-Dick. Lethem's joyful approach to literature will inspire you to dive back into your favorite books and then point you towards what to read next. Jonathan Lethem is the author of the novels Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn as well as three short story collections"--Provided by publisher.

Boucher, Christopher.

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