📱 eBook en inglés THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST

Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. In the title piece, a letter from his aunt (a childrens book author) spurs a meditation on the value of writing workshops, the role and influence of reviews, and the uncomfortable fraternity of writers. In Defending The Searchers, Lethem explains how a passion for the classic John Wayne Western became occasion for a series of minor humiliations. In Identifying with Your Parents, an excavation of childhood love for superhero comics expands to cover a whole range of nostalgia for a previous generations cultural artefacts. And 13/1977/21, which begins by recounting the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times, slipping past ushers whod begun to recognize me..., becomes a meditation on the sorrow and solace of the solitary moviegoer.