From the award-winning author ofMotherless BrooklynandThe Ecstasy Of Influencecomes a new collection of essays that celebrates a life spent in books“Lethem is one of our most perceptive cultural critics, conversant in both the high and low realms, his insights buffeted by his descriptive imagination.”-The Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore Alive and Less Lonelycollects over a decade ofJonathan Lethem'sfinest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including impassioned appreciations of forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp critical essays, and personal accounts of his most extraordinary literary encounters and discoveries.OnlyLethem, with his love of cult favourites and the canon alike, can write with equal insight into classic writers like Charles Dickens and Herman Melville, modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Thomas Pynchon, graphic novelist Chester Brown, and science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick.“Lethem is literature’s ultimate fanboy… [His] earnestness is satisfying, but it’s his vulnerability, his willingness to expose his own flaws, that endears… Lethem’s words remind of us of our own rabid fandoms.”  -The New York Times Book ReviewSharing his infectious love for books of all kinds,More Alive and Less Lonelyis a bracing voyage of literary discovery and an essential addition to every booklover's shelf.