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About the Book

More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers

written by Jonathan Lethem, edited by Christopher Boucher

From the award-winning author of MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN and THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE comes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books

MORE ALIVE AND LESS LONELY collects over a decade of Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appreciations of forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp critical essays, and personal accounts of his most extraordinary literary encounters and discoveries.

Only Lethem, with his love of cult favorites and the canon alike, can write with equal insight into classic writers like Charles Dickens and Herman Melville, modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Thomas Pynchon, graphic novelist Chester Brown and science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick.

Sharing his infectious love for books of all kinds, MORE ALIVE AND LESS LONELY is a bracing voyage of literary discovery and an essential addition to every booklover’s shelf.

More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers
written by Jonathan Lethem, edited by Christopher Boucher

  • Publication Date: March 21, 2017
  • Genres: Essays, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Melville House
  • ISBN-10: 1612196039
  • ISBN-13: 9781612196039