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Jonathan Lethem: 2009 Hays Visiting Writer

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Acclaimed writer Jonathan Lethem, this year's Will Hays, Jr. Visiting Writer, shakes hands with Wabash President Pat White at a book signing following his talk on Monday night. 
 

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Lethem listens to a Wabash student during the hour-plus long gathering between the author and aspiring writers in the College's Caleb Mills house.

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Lethem talks with students and Professor Warren Rosenberg during the gathering in the Caleb Mills house.

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Assistant Professor of English Eric Freeze introduces Lethem in Ball Theater: "Jonathan Lethem’s works are distinguished by memorable characters and his love of language. He leads us into the tangle of words, and always finds his way out.”

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Lethem tells the Wabash community the story of his unconventional journey from aspiring painter to acclaimed writer.

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Jonathan Lethem: “To become any kind of a writer, you have to have a period of reading almost obsessively. I read all of Kurt Vonnegut’s books in three weeks. There was a time in high school when I read one novel per day—I filleted a book like a fish."

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Lethem: "Expressiveness requires discomfort—a willingness for me, as a writer, to be uncomfortable, and the reader, as well.” 

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 Lethem talks with a student after his presentation.

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 Wabash Trustee John Fox ’64 and son-in-law of Will and Ginny Hays, enjoys a conversation with Professor Eric Freeze.

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Lethem signs books for Wabash First Lady Chris White and her family.

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