More Alive and Less Lonely by Lethem, Jonathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Other Titles Copyright Contents Introduction: by Christopher Boucher I: Engulf and Devour

The Loneliest Book I’ve Read Footnote on Sylvie Selig Engulf and Devour The Figure in the Castle The Greatest Animal Novelist of All Time The Counter-Roth

II: It Can Still Take Me There

The Only Human Superhero Forget This Introduction What’s Old Is New (NYRB) To Catch a Beat Footnote

III: Objects in Furious Motion

Fierce Attachments Attention Drifting Beautifully (Donald Barthelme) Rock of Ages My Hero: Karl Ove Knausgaard A New Life (Malamud) A Mug’s Game Steven Millhauser’s Ghost Stories

IV: Lost Worlds

The Mechanics of Fear, Revisited On the Yard Walter Tevis’s Mockingbird Everything Said and Exhausted (Daniel Fuchs) How Did I Get Here and What Could It Possibly Mean? (Bernard Wolfe) ’Twas Ever Thus (Tanguy Viel’s Beyond Suspicion) Russell Greenan’s Geniuses

V: Ecstatic Depictions of Consciousness

Consumed Dog Soldiers Bizarro World On Two Sentences from Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Screenwriter” Remarks Perhaps of Some Assistance to the Reader of Joseph McElroy’s Ancient History: A Paraphase

VI: Thomas Berger and I Have Never Met (Ishiguro, Berger and PKD)

Kazuo Ishiguro The Butler Did It Footnote on Ishiguro High Priest of the Paranoids The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike To Ubik Life After Wartime Thomas Berger Letters from the Invisible Man: My Correspondence with Thomas Berger Footnote on Berger

VII OK You Mugs

Heavy Petting More Than Night You Talkin’ to Me? New York Characters Lost and Found The Original Piece of Wood I Left in Your Head: A Conversation Between Director Spike Jonze and Critic Perkus Tooth Johnny’s Graying Teenaged Sense of What Isn’t Boring (Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002) Close Reading (Ricks on Dylan) Rod Serling Mutual Seduction

VIII: Fan Mail

Carved in Need New Old Friend (A Toast to Kenneth Koch) Eyes Wide Open Something About a Slice Pynchonopolis To Cosmicomics Anthony Burgess Answers Two Questions A Furtive Exchange Books Are Sandwiches

Acknowledgments Credits About the Author About the Editor