The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. Audiobook (Free)

What’s a novelist likely to perform with contemporary lifestyle? And what’s contemporary culture sup­posed regarding novelists? In The Ecstasy of Impact, Jonathan Lethem, tangling using what he calls the “white elephant” role of the article writer as general public intellectual, finds an astonishing range of answers.

A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he’s created, this quantity sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, aswell as on a shelf’s worthy of of his literary versions and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, Adam Solid wood, and oth­ers. And, writing about Brooklyn, his dad, and his sojourn through 2 decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally solid light on himself.