Description - The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
This book shows the development of Jonathan Lethem's imagination through the movies, comics and books he read as a child - it is a rich mixture of personal memories and cultural commentaries.
In the title piece, a letter from his aunt (a children's book author) spurs a meditation on the value of writing workshops, the role and influence of reviews, and the uncomfortable fraternity of writers. In 'Defending The Searchers', Lethem explains how a passion for the classic John Wayne Western became occasion for a series of minor humiliations. In Identifying with Your Parents, an excavation of childhood love for superhero comics expands to cover a whole range of nostalgia for a previous generation's cultural artefacts. And 13/1977/21, which begins by recounting the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times, 'slipping past ushers who'd begun to recognize me.' becomes a meditation on the sorrow and solace of the solitary moviegoer.
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