“Alone at the Movies,” by Jonathan Lethem

11/02/2021
“Alone at the Movies,” by Jonathan Lethem

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From The New Yorker, June 17, 2002 (an excerpt) In the summer of 1977, I saw Star Wars twenty-one times, mostly by myself. I was thirteen—that kid alone in the ticket line, slipping past ushers who’d begun to recognize me, impatient to get to my favorite seat. All twenty-one viewings took place at the Loews…

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