Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture

Title: Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture Author: Jonathan Lethem ISBN: 9798988670001 Publisher: ZE Books Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Art 1620660 Publisher Description: A rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds. Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels--Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others--play with genres and storytelling modes like a DJ mixing music. But Lethem grew up in his father's studio, went to art school, and, in his own words, "made hundreds if not thousands of drawings, collages, paintings, hand-drawn comics, and even two animated shorts" before diverting, at nineteen, to prose fiction. The surreal and form-defying panoply of