Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie : A Memoir in Essays

Now in paperback: an exhilarating journey through the world of books, ideas, and activism. "Steve Wasserman is a treasure of American letters and his book is a testament, above all, to a literary life lived to the fullest." -Héctor TobarBorn on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social critic of the first rank.In thirty splendid essays, originally published in such diverse publications as the New Republic and The Nation, The American Conservative and The Progressive, The Village Voice and the Los Angeles Times, Wasserman delivers a riveting account of the awakening of an empathetic sensibility and a lively mind.Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of his enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, and the tumults of a world in upheaval.They include the remarkable tale of a bookstore owner who wouldn't let him buy the books he wanted, to his bra