Jonathan Lerner, writer

Jonathan Lerner, writerJonathan Lerner, writerJonathan Lerner, writer

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My nephew Ben Lerner and I had a conversation about my new memoir, Performance Anxiety, in which I describe some of my—let's call it—ungentlemanly behavior as a teenager. An audience member suggested that the book might be considered a confession of my sins...We pondered the question...

Stream a video of the whole conversation here.

PERFORMANCE ANXIETY

THE HEADLONG ADOLESCENCE OF A MID-CENTURY KID


Jonathan Lerner's just-published memoir of (gay) sex, (radical) politics, rock-and-roll, and looming adulthood in the years just before all hell broke loose in the multiple upheavals we now call "the sixties."                                        

                                                                            More about the book.   Media reaction.


"Lerner uses an uncanny memory of things past plus relentless insight to reconstruct a mid-century America brimming with confidence, haunted by the ghosts of racism, and poised for big change. Performance Anxiety is smart, moving, tender, funny, tense, and deeply resonant."


           JEREMY VARON, co-editor, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture

LILY NARCISSSUS

LILY NARCISSUS is Jonathan Lerner's recent novel about Americans in the Foreign Service in Asia during the Vietnam era.




"An Elegiac Tale of the Cold War Past...It is primarily in worldbuilding that the novel stands out. The world that Lerner summons up is remarkable precisely because he manages to make it feel so spectral and real at the same time."


                                    reviewed in the Taiwanese journal No Man Is an Island   


                                   

                                                                            More about LILY NARCISSUS.



About Jonathan Lerner

My novels​ are  Lily Narcissus, Alex Underground and Caught in a Still Place. My previous memoir, Swords in the Hands of Children is about my experiences in the militant left in the sixties. I co-edited the oral history Voices from Wounded Knee.  For four decades I have been a magazine writer and editor, and am a longtime contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine, where my work addresses connections between the built and natural environments. Read a sampling of my recent articles here.

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