Some Favorite Writers: Jonathan Lethem
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Did I say I love this book? Well, OK then, I love this book... —Los Angeles Times
Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times best-selling author of eight novels, including Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn. His newest volume, The Ecstasy of Influence, is a constellation of provocative previously published pieces and new essays that shed light on an array of topics, from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on his literary models and contemporaries.
Complimentary coffee and tea served. A book signing will follow the reading.
Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.
This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.
Public programs are made possible by Hammer Members and the generosity of Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and an anonymous donor.