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What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence , Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing... read more
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- James Brown: Add a description of this character.
- Bob Dylan
- Philip K. Dick
- Berger
- Norman Mailer
- Fred Wesley
- Ballard
- Hollie
- Donna
- Bret
- Chesterton
- Damon
- Hazel
- Jackson
- Ernie Kovacs
- Jeff
- Danny Ray
- Wood
- Saad
- Drew Barrymore
- Otis Redding
- Keith
- Calvino
- Spider-man
- Borges
- Kafka
- Pynchon
- Agee
- Fred Thomas
- Jake
- George
- Miller
- Mr. Bobbit
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Eliot
- Paul
- Lewis
- Karl
- John Wayne
- Lola
- Knut
- Carroll
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Kirkus Reviews: Best Nonfiction of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jonathan Lethem (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 809
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