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ONE of the finest memoirs I’ve read in many moons comes from veteran literary and culture critic Lee Siegel. His book The Draw tells the tale of an intellectually serious young man in a family w/ a messy, complicated relationship to money and class, which set repeated roadblocks before him. It’s lyrical, succinct, at times painful.
Here is my Q+A with Siegel, who is published here by FSG, for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In a funny way some of it — especially the effort of a boy from a not-rich family to become a writer and independent thinker — dovetails with my book Culture Crash. 