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Product Description: What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture sup­posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers...read more
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9780307744500 | Vintage Books, October 2, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture?

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By Jonathan Lethem (introduced by)
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9780812993479 | Random House Inc, October 1, 2013, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that birthed the band, and hints at the directions (positive and negative) they'd take in the near future...read more
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9781441121004 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 26, 2012, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979.

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Product Description: “A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn’t a legend and he wasn’t mad...read more
By Erik Davis (editor), Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson (editor) and Jonathan Lethem (editor)
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9780547549255 | Houghton Mifflin, November 8, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: “A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant.

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Product Description: What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture sup­posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers...read more
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9780385534956 | Doubleday, November 8, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture?

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Product Description: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine...read more
By Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson (editor), Jonathan Lethem (editor) and Fred Stella (narrator)
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9781455814626 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 1, 2011), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K.
9781455837342 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 1, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K.

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Product Description: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine...read more
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9781455837335 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 1, 2011), cover price $99.97 | About this edition: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K.
9781455837359 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 1, 2011), cover price $49.97 | About this edition: Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K.

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Product Description: Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer. These newly discovered conversations with legendary journalist Paul Nelson return us to a point when, still acting in other people’s films, Eastwood was honing his directorial craft on a series of inexpensive films that he brought in under budget and ahead of schedule...read more
By Jonathan Lethem (foreword by)
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9781441165862 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 6, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer.

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Product Description: McSweeney’s Issue 4 is a box containing 14 booklets. The booklets feature fiction and nonfiction, from Denis Johnson, Haruki Murakami, Sheila Heti, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Rachel Cohen, Lawrence Weschler, Rick Moody, Lydia Davis, and many others...read more
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9781934781920 | McSweeneys Books, November 30, 2010, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: McSweeney’s Issue 4 is a box containing 14 booklets.

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Product Description: Chase Insteadman, un apuesto e inofensivo producto de la escena social de Manhattan, lleva una vida de ocio gracias a las rentas que recibe de su breve carrera como actor infantil. Además, últimamente ha vuelto a la vida pública por una tragedia que los medios no se cansan de cubrir: su amor de la adolescencia y prometida, Janice Trumbull, está atrapada en la Estación Espacial Internacional, desde donde le envía arrebatadas cartas de amor...read more
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9780385518635 | Doubleday, October 13, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.

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9788439723400 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, January 1, 2011), cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Chase Insteadman, un apuesto e inofensivo producto de la escena social de Manhattan, lleva una vida de ocio gracias a las rentas que recibe de su breve carrera como actor infantil.
9780307277527 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 24, 2010), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The bestselling and beloved author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude delivers a searing love letter to the city that has inspired his finest work.

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By Raymond Chandler, Catherine Corman (photographer) and Jonathan Lethem (foreword by)
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9788881587247 | Charta, October 31, 2009, cover price $39.95

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Miscellaneous:

9780385532150 | Doubleday, October 13, 2009, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Jonathan Lethem recrea las peripecias de una banda indie de escaso éxito en Los Ángeles. Lucinda, la bajista del grupo, trabaja en una oficina de reclamaciones. El trabajo es muy aburrido, pero hay un cliente que tras varias llamadas acaba seduciéndola con sus brillantes reflexiones subidas de tono...read more
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9788499080512 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, October 1, 2009), cover price $13.95 | also contains Todavia No Me Quieres/ You Don'T Love Me Yet | About this edition: Jonathan Lethem recrea las peripecias de una banda indie de escaso éxito en Los Ángeles.
9788439720966 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, June 1, 2008), cover price $24.95

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By Jonathan Lethem (editor)
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9781598530490 | Library of America, October 15, 2009, cover price $110.00

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Product Description: This is the story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down! Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega the Unknown lasted only ten issues, but was a legend to those who recall it - an ahead-of-its-time tale of an anti-hero, inflected with brilliant ambiguity...read more
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9780785119432, titled "Omega the Unknown: The Unknown" | Reprint edition (Marvel Enterprises, June 30, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This is the story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down!

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Product Description: In 2007, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s became the fastest selling title in The Library of America's history. The 2008 companion volume, Five Novels of the1960s & 70s, broke series records for advance sales. Now comes a third and final volume gathering the best novels of Dick's final years, when religious revelation, always important in his work, became a dominant and irresistible theme...read more
By Jonathan Lethem (editor)
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9781598530445 | Library of America, July 30, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 2007, Philip K.

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By Jonathan Lethem (introduced by)
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Miscellaneous:

9780307422019 | Modern Library, July 16, 2009, cover price $8.95

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Product Description: L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer...read more
By Jonathan Lethem (introduced by)
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9781590173008 | New York Review of Books, March 10, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: L.

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Product Description: Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie’s work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture. Named by Time magazine in 2001 as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, his rich work draws from subjects as diverse as ancient myth and medieval alchemy to cutting-edge physics and contemporary politics...read more
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9780847831081 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 25, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie’s work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture.

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Product Description: Within the simple constraints of a glass globe, the captivating images in Travelers conjure up entire sequences of imaginary worlds and events. Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz collaboratively create mesmerizing miniature snowbound environments, then record them in chilly color photographs...read more
By Jonathan Lethem, Walter Martin (photographer) and Paloma Munoz (photographer)
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9781597110730 | Aperture, October 1, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Within the simple constraints of a glass globe, the captivating images in Travelers conjure up entire sequences of imaginary worlds and events.

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Product Description: The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down! Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega the Unknown lasted only ten issues, but was a legend to those who recall it - an ahead-of-its-time tale of an anti-hero, inflected with brilliant ambiguity...read more
By Farel Dalrymple (contributor), Paul Hornschemeier (contributor), Jonathan Lethem and Karl Rusnack
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9780785130529 | Marvel Enterprises, September 24, 2008, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down!

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Product Description: While shadowing the wife of an affluent urologist, a hapless private eye falls in love with her. When the doctor turns up dead, the P.I. finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of the Fickle Muse...read more
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9781605146430 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, March 15, 2008), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: While shadowing the wife of an affluent urologist, a hapless private eye falls in love with her.

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Product Description: These three novels of the 1930s constitute an American classic. In their own way, they do for the Jewish immigrants of Brooklyn what Studs Lonigan did for the Irish of Chicago. So it is no surprise that, upon their first publication, Lonigan's creator welcomed them in a review for The Nation, praising Fuchs's keen eye, excellent ear for dialogue, and quick perception of the grotesque, the whimsical, the tragic...read more
By Daniel Fuchs and Jonathan Lethem (introduced by)
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9781574232103 | Black Sparrow Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: These three novels of the 1930s constitute an American classic.

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9788439706472 | Random House Mondadori, October 30, 2001, cover price $22.95

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