J Lethem

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The Spring 1997 Voice Literary Supplement includes a profile of Jonathan
Lethem by Richard B. Woodward.  Here's Lethem on studying fine arts at
Bennington alongside Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jill Eisenstadt:

"I stayed apart from the writing scene.  What people at Bennington thought
was contemporary didn't seem nearly as interesting as inhabiting the
10-year time lag I was in.  I wrote covertly as a teenager in the '70s
while I was reading Pynchon, Mailer, Brautigan, Henry Miller, Barthelme,
Donleavy, Durrell, Vonnegut.  When I learned that I was supposed to be
excited by Raymond Carver I wasn't thrilled."

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