More Alive And Less Lonely
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781612197388
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $34.99

More Alive And Less Lonely

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New expanded edition, with three more essays!

From the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Ecstasy of Influence comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books

More Alive and Less Lonely collects over a decade of Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appreciations of forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp critical essays, and personal accounts of his most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 into classic writers like Charles Dickens and Herman Melville, modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Thomas Pynchon, graphic novelist Chester Brown, and science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick.
                                                                                                                
Sharing his infectious love for books of all kinds, More Alive and Less Lonely is a bracing voyage of literary discovery and an essential addition to every booklover’s shelf.
  • Published: 15 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9781612197388
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Jonathan Lethem

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.

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Lucky Alan
Dissident Gardens
The Ecstasy of Influence
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Praise for More Alive And Less Lonely

“Lethem is literature's ultimate fanboy...[His] earnestness is satisfying, but it's his vulnerability, his willingness to expose his own flaws, that endears...Lethem's words remind of us of our own rabid fandoms.”  —The New York Times Book Review “Incisive, colorful, and insightful...beguiling.”  —Publishers Weekly “Thoughtful and often sly...[A] standout collection.”  —Kirkus “Lethem is one of our most perceptive cultural critics, conversant in both the high and low realms, his insights buffeted by his descriptive imagination.”  —The Los Angeles Times Book Review   “Lethem is, of course, a king of sentences . . . His talent is large.” —The New York Times Book Review