I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna doร that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...
Jonathan LethemYou donโt have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.
Jonathan LethemA reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.
Jonathan Lethem