National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year Austin American-Statesman
Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet"
InThe Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism which also doubles as a novelist s manifesto, self-portrait, and confession. The result is an insightful, charming, and entertaining grab bag that covers everything from great novels to...
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year Austin American-Statesman <...
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.
In "The Days of Perky Pat," people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth's real inhabitants. "Adjustment Team" looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In "Autofac," one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon," we...
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a...
"Poppige, durchdachte und wilddynamisch zusammengestellte Patchwork-Memoiren." Booklist§Welchen Einfluss hat ein Autor auf unsere zeitgenössische §Kultur? Und welchen Einfluss hat §unsere zeitgenössische Kultur auf Autoren? §Provokativ und eigenwillig wirft Jonathan §Lethem in "Bekenntnisse eines Tiefstaplers" §Schlaglichter auf Themen wie Netzkultur, Bob §Dylan, Marlon Brando, Sex im Kino und seinen §literarischen Pantheon - genauso wie auf seine §eigene Biographie.
"Poppige, durchdachte und wilddynamisch zusammengestellte Patchwork-Memoiren." Booklist§Welchen Einfluss hat ein Autor auf unsere zeitgenössische §...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer's most important and representative work in the form that many rank as his most electrifying. As America's foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a ubiquitous presence in our national life--on the airwaves and in print--for more than sixty years. With his supple mind and...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century Ame...
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called "as ambitious as Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylan" (Los Angeles Times), returns with an epic yet intimate family saga. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who...
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice...
"Meine Identifikation mit Fear of Musicwar so groß, dass ich wünschte, das Album anstelle meines Kopfes zu tragen" Jonathan Lethem§Brooklyn im Sommer 1979. Ein fünfzehnjähriger Junge liegt auf seinem Bett und hört Radio, als eine monotone Stimme zwischen den gespielten Songs verkündet: "Die Talking Heads haben ein neues Album, es heißt Fear of Music". Für den Jungen, es handelt sich um Jonathan Lethem, ein alles entscheidender Moment.
"Meine Identifikation mit Fear of Musicwar so groß, dass ich wünschte, das Album anstelle meines Kopfes zu tragen" Jonathan Lethem§Brooklyn im Somm...
In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously as a secretary-bodyguard for Leon Trotsky in Mexico, a cataloger of the Irving Fisher papers, and a hopelessly inept drill-grinder, Wolfe landed his first professional writing job: turning out piecework porn at $2.00 a page for an Oklahoma millionaire. He credited his pornographic efforts with...
In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters...
Painter, novelist and wrestler, Drexler is the great polymath of Pop
Rosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds. In the late 1950s and early '60s, she showed sculpture at New York's Reuben Gallery, a gathering place for artists like Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg who combined installation and performance with traditional media. Drexler took part in Happenings at Reuben Gallery and at Judson Church (years after her own quasi-performance as a female wrestler, memorialized by Andy Warhol in the 1962 series Album of a Mat Queen). Drexler's collages and...
Painter, novelist and wrestler, Drexler is the great polymath of Pop
Rosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds. In the...
Der erste Detektivroman von Jonathan Lethem seit dem Bestseller "Motherless Brooklyn"
Als die arbeitslose Phoebe Siegler erfährt, dass die Tochter ihrer besten Freundin vermisst wird, bricht sie von Brooklyn aus auf, um in der kalifornischen Provinz nach dem Teenager zu suchen. Im dunklen Herzen der Wüste trifft sie auf Aussteiger, die jenseits von Recht und Gesetz in Stammesgruppen leben. Der Einzige, der ihr Zugang zu diesen ehemaligen Hippie- Kommunen verschaffen kann, ist Charles Heist - genannt der "wilde Detektiv".
Der erste Detektivroman von Jonathan Lethem seit dem Bestseller "Motherless Brooklyn"
Als die arbeitslose Phoebe Siegler erfährt, dass die T...
