The Amateur

- Illustrations : Non - Publisher's note :A renowned cultural observer and critic focuses on the intersection of art and experience in an intellectual memoir that describes coming of age in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s, the events that shaped her life, and the influences of film, theater, art, and literature on her life and work. Reprint.

"Lesser emerges as not only smart but modest and likable; it's perhaps no accident that in the best of these essays she's happily examining the triumphs of others, and that she seems less sure when..she turns her attention to herself." - New Yorker, 05/17/1999