Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
With his new book
Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture,
Jonathan Lethem showcases his talents as one of modern literature’s most eclectic critical minds. This rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling gathers a lifetime of Lethem's art-writing, along with stunning, full-color images from the author's own collection and elsewhere. Here we tour Lethem's fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends; his meditations on comics and graffiti art; his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, and his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. This new book also coincides with the anniversary re-release of Lethem’s award-winning detective novel
Motherless Brooklyn. Join the author in conversation with Litquake veteran
Rita Bullwinkel, author most recently of Booker Prize–longlisted
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FREE, $10-15 suggested donationBook sales for this event coordinated by
City Lights Bookstore.
