I don’t exaggerate when I say he takes the potentially dry notion of ‘public advocacy’ and shifts it into the realm of epiphany, and art. Ever since that moment Douglas has been one of my personal heroes, and I’ve been a most attentive reader of anything he cares to put between covers, knowing that his combination of a cold eye and a warm heart is guaranteed to astonish and embolden my own thinking about what’s possible in the world–about what’s possible to enact in the space between one human being and another. “You don’t make anything of value,” I believe he told them, with a tone of humane explanation. I once sat astonished in the audience at a conference on business law and copyright and watched as Douglas Rushkoff stood on stage and patiently, even gently, explained to a group of record company executives, who’d paid for the privilege of hearing him speak, why it was simply time for them to stop trying to rescue their industry. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels. Jonathan Lethem’s Amazon Review of Life Inc.
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