Boyhood: The Moment Seizes You

By Jonathan Lethem

Essays—

Oct 10, 2016

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

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