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The Disappointment Artist: Essays

di Jonathan Lethem

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In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" have led him home--home to his father's life as a painter, and to the source of his beginnings as a writer. This book is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem's richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life as a human creature in the jungle of culture at the end of the twentieth century.--From publisher description.… (altro)

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The disappointment book. (

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uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 |

I love this guy. I love his novels, I love his essays, I love his stories, I love his articles, I love his Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. I love his truth, I love his style, I love his sensibilities, I love his sentences, I love his name-dropping, I love his nerdly-ness, I love his Collected Works, I love his OCD, I love his diatribes & analyses of film and music, I love his 12 years in a used bookstore. The comics? Well, it's a guy thing, it passed me by.

Still. I love these essays. I get them. I used to write things like this myself, about movies, about dance, about loss, about terrifying visits to scary dentists, and about the struggle to try to understand your art and your self. There's nothing so wrong about them & his are particularly amusing & well-written. Mine are too, yet mine live on my blog and his are collected into this beautiful book. I love you, man. Keep the hits comin'! (

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ReneeGKC | Aug 16, 2014 |

Although I haven't read more than a paragraph of Chuck Klosterman, I'm reminded. If you're into 70s art rock, PKDick, Magritte, Godard, Kubrick, and well, finish the list yourself, this should be a treat. I'm into those things too, but what boy isn't? But this boy likes to learn something when he reads.

Then there's the 'densely allusive' quality of the essays. Er. Watch for the echo from Finnegans Wake, congratulate yourself for catching it, berate yourself for your self-congratulation given the obviousness of the allusion, and then wonder why it's there at all. Hella Catchall Egotism?

For nostalgics only. I wish I hadn't read it.

And I suppose I just don't see the point of memoir, a genre Lethem does nothing to justify. (

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karl.steel | Apr 2, 2013 |

Fantastic book and a fun review to boot!
http://hubpages.com/hub/Who-Of-Us-Also-Stumbled-Past-The-Work-Of-Jonathan-Lethem... (

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MSarki | Mar 29, 2013 |

Sweet and sour in the right amounts, with occasional attacks of lachrymose sentimentality and preening self-awareness, but all in all, crisp like a whip-snap and exuberant in all its tweedy, four-eyed enthusiasms. IT WAS NICE. I HAD A NICE TIME. (

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nohablo | Dec 12, 2010 |

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
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gray318	Progetto della copertina	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Testa, M.	Traduttore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these "voyages out from himself" have led him home--home to his father's life as a painter, and to the source of his beginnings as a writer. This book is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem's richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life as a human creature in the jungle of culture at the end of the twentieth century.--From publisher description.

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