Boyhood: The Moment Seizes You

By Jonathan Lethem

Essays—

Oct 10, 2016

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Jonathan Lethem is the author of twelve novels, including Chronic City and The Arrest. His thirteenth, Brooklyn Crime Novel, will be published in October 2023. His writings on film include the monograph They Live; liner notes for releases of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers, Thom Andersen’s Red Hollywood, and Preston Sturges’s Unfaithfully Yours; and contributions to box sets devoted to John Cassavetes, Wong Kar Wai, and Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons.

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