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From Publishers Weekly
Novelist Lethem's new collection of essays starts with an intriguing, if emotionally distant, consideration of his lifelong relationship with popular culture and develops into a moving memoir that transcends those references altogether. As the essays make clear, Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude) has always been obsessive: he watched Star Wars 21 times the summer it was released, then followed that with 21 viewings of 2001 a few years later; the novels of Philip K. Dick played as large a role in his growing artistic vision as did the canvases of his father, painter Richard Lethem. But the collection doesn't find its purpose until the author strips away the pop culture references to get at what really drives him: the childhood his hippie parents provided for him, his father's artistic influence on him, his mother's early death. The book picks up steam especially in the essay "Lives of the Bohemians," a simple and direct family history in which, for the first time here, Lethem's depiction of himself as a child feels genuine rather than theorized, lived rather than considered. By the end, Lethem fully and beautifully bares himself, admitting that he, like so many, is driven by loss. Only then does he write the truest sentence possible: "I find myself speaking about my mother's death everywhere I go in this world."
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From Booklist
Lethem, the author of such inventive and sensitive novels and short story collections as The Fortress of Solitude (2003) and Men and Cartoons (2004), is also a skilled and winning essayist. Here he shares pivotal passages in his creative life in remembrances of his rough Brooklyn childhood, and his early attempts at writing. But as is his wont, Lethem sneaks up on key themes from oblique angles, portraying his bohemian household via descriptions of his father's paintings, and broaching his mother's early death in an essay about his going to see Star Wars 21 times the summer he turned 13. He considers creativity in a frank and funny account of his obsession with the film The Searchers; raves about comics, Philip K. Dick, and a favorite subway station; and offers a hilarious response to a letter from his aunt Billie, a children's author, recounting her experience with the famously misanthropic writer Edward Dahlberg, whom Lethem shrewdly pegs as a "disappointment artist." Lethem succeeds in granting readers insights not only into his passions but also into their own. Donna Seaman
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