Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem joins Writers Voices for a conversation on writing and his new book of essays – More Alive and Less Lonely. On what got him started writing, ” I was participating in a conversation that enthralled me, as a reader, and I wanted to talk back to it….On the whole (writing) is an art form that isn’t made up of prodigies, the way say, Mozart or a math or science prodigy. It usually takes some seasoning for people to become interesting enough to write books that you’d want to read; and that was true with me,”