{"product_id":"the-disappointment-artist-essays-9781400076819","title":"The Disappointment Artist: Essays","description":"In a volume he describes as \"a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces,\" Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession--from western films and comic books, to the music of Pink Floyd and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these \"voyages out from himself\" has led him to the source of his beginnings as a writer. \u003ci\u003eThe Disappointment Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of windows onto the collisions of art, landscape, and personal history that formed Lethem's richly imaginative, searingly honest perspective on life. A touching, deeply perceptive portrait of a writer in the making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Fortress of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, \u003ci\u003eMen and Cartoons\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Vintage Book of Amnesia\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334377672978,"sku":"9781400076819","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe6948e0-48f9-4f1a-9b7d-d91cd12a2559.jpg?v=1727888746","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-disappointment-artist-essays-9781400076819","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}