Jonathan Lethem
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On Jonathan Lethem’s Art Writing September 12, 2024
JONATHAN LETHEM is perhaps best known as a writer of pastiche-driven, omnidirectionally intelligent fiction. His novels include a Chandler-inspired detective story (Gun, with Occasional Music), an academic satire (As She Climbed Across the Table), an...
Jonathan Lethem Returns to the Scene of the Crime October 30, 2023
Jonathan Lethem, as he sees it, is the last of his kind—the Brooklyn novelist who wanted to flee Brooklyn. “The idea, when I was growing up—and it was an old one—was you got out of that place. And if you could put it behind you, you might not even me...
“Ideological Sci-Fi”: A Conversation with Julius Taranto October 12, 2023
Julius Taranto may have left his job as a lawyer at Kellogg Hansen in January 2023, but as a full-time writer he remains fascinated by the court of public opinion. His debut novel, How I Won a Nobel Prize, explores The Rubin Institute, a fictional Am...
On Jonathan Lethem's 'Brooklyn Crime Novel' October 09, 2023
“What if Brownstone Brooklyn is salted with fakes to begin with? False fronts, a Potemkin village?” For sure, the place (non-place? near-place?) where Jonathan Lethem’s thirteenth novel is set has seemed mythic in many ways in recent decades—though t...
