Among the 84 signatories were such notables as Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, Zadie Smith and Sam Lipsyte.

FORBES: Literary Stars Side with Union in Harper's Magazine Dispute

Jonathan Lethem will probably write more popular books in the future.

NPR: 'The Disappointment Artist' by Jonathan Lethem

Nearly 40 years later, gentrification became a hot-button topic across America, in Brooklyn especially, and a group of writers led by Jonathan Lethem urged readers to rediscover the long out-of-print title.

FORBES: A Meaningful Publisher

Thirty-odd years later, though, author Jonathan Lethem wrote gushingly about it, it was republished by NYRB Classics, and a younger generation that rode into urban areas on waves of gentrification could identify with its subject matter.

FORBES: The Meaningful L.J. Davis