Rachel Kaufman, freelance reporter

I'm an interrogator of gargoyle lovers, frog fondlers, and the eternal optimists saving the news industry. These are some of the stories I've written.

Posts Tagged ‘jonathan lethem’

On the Commodification of the Ecstasy of the By-Products of Action

By • Mar 13th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

(No, this is not another Splasher post.)  If you haven’t read Jonathan Lethem’s amazing plagiarism, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” over at Harper’s, go do so. The idea that everything is a retelling is, in itself, not a new idea, but I don’t often think of works of art and literature as being better when they [...]