Jonathan Lethem inspires songs at a Pasadena bookstore
(LA Times Dodgers)

`I want to be in the audience,` Jonathan Lethem said into a microphone at Vroman´s Bookstore on Sunday afternoon. He slipped off stage and into a front row seat to watch musicians Cindy Lee Berryhill and Ben Arthur perform `answer songs` that they´d composed in response to a story from his collection...