Salon.com > The Ecstasy of Influence http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 22:29:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Jonathan Lethem: The literary world is like high school http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/jonathan_lethem_the_literary_world_is_like_high_school/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/jonathan_lethem_the_literary_world_is_like_high_school/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10222552 The novelist Jonathan Lethem began trying his hand at nonfiction back in the 1990s, for this very publication. He's since proven himself a modern master of the form, having just published his second collection of criticism, essays and autobiography, "The Ecstasy of Influence." The new book includes the now-famous title essay -- a defense of collage and appropriation that's revealed at the end to be patched together from rewritten snippets of other writers' work -- originally published in Harper's magazine. It also features a new and currently much-discussed response to a mixed review of Lethem's novel "The Fortress of Solitude," written by James Wood for the New Yorker.

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