Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem's Classic City

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Jonathan Lethem and Elizabeth Benedict

Pen On Fire (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

Marrie Stone interviews Jonathan Lethem , author of Chronic City , and Elizabeth Benedict , author of Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives . Download audio . (Broadcast date: Nov 18, 2009)

Jonathan Lethem's imaginary metropolis

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

Of all the strange characters and figures who drift through Jonathan Lethem's new novel Chronic City – which include an obsessive motormouth of an ex-rock critic, a giant tiger, a soul-redeeming pit bull, Marlon Brando and a cloud that hangs permanently over the place where the World Trade Center might have been – the strangest is New York City itself.

Neuroscience and popular culture: Reasons not to buy "neuronovels" for people for Christmas

Mindful Hack (Free subscription) | yesterday

In the age of neuro-everything, I am hardly surprised to hear about the neuronovel . Jonah Lehrer at Frontal Cortex reports, The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel-the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind-has transformed...

Secret Histories

Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

A few years ago, Jonathan Lethem published an essay in The Village Voice, ‘Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction’, in which he decried the close-mindedness of the genre and sketched an alternate history in which Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow won the Nebula instead of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama in 1973, leading to a reconciliation...

Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City: E Pluribis Oona

Who Walk In Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

“What Richard Abneg had carried forward, always, anyhow, was a certain sense of his own crucial place in the island’s life. He’d never copped out. And the beard, that too was uncompromised, continuous. He grew it when was fifteen and reading Howard Zinn and Charles Bukowski and Emmett Grogan. I soaked up Harriet’s description and [...]

Review-a-Day for Sat, Nov 14: Chronic City

Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem, a review from Identity Theory by Darby M. Dixon III .

Jonathan Lethem reading

New York Post (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

The writer reads from his latest novel, "Chronic City," tonight. For more information, call 718-387-7322. ...

The Rigors of Tie-in Writing

I Am a Tie-in Writer (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Over at Jeff Vandermeer's blog , authors Dan Abnett and Mark Charan Newton discuss the challenges of writing tie-ins vs non-franchise fiction. Here's an excerpt: Mark Charan Newton : You see it frequently these days – a literary fiction star such as Jonathan Lethem wanting to write a comic strip for Omega the Unknown, or Jodi Piccoult writing a Wonder Woman series. There’s a sense of reverence...

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Goodreads November Newsletter

let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

You are subscribed to the Goodreads Newsletter . You can unsubscribe anytime. Please be sure to add us to your contacts/address book. Puisbloger, Here's our monthly newsletter from Goodreads—giving you the latest and greatest in our quest to connect people through reading! Sponsored by: The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes,...

Lethem On The New Yorker’s Font

Second Verse (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

I’m reading Jonathan’s Lethem’s latest novel, Chronic City. The first chapter is a quirky, compelling read, focused on the burgeoning friendship of two very different men in a Manhattan that creeps into every bit of characterization. And while I love a good opening, there’s a ton to admire in the way Lethem broadside of The [...]

Miami Book Fair Going Strong This Week

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small entrance fee, the fair is already going strong in its 26th year despite a significantly reduced budget , and is celebrating authors big and small. Says the Miami New Times : The afterparties are nil and the fashions are more along the lines of smoking...

Photo by David Highsmith A polished apple...

Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

Photo by David Highsmith A polished apple for David Melnick § Secret © treaty leaks – & it’s bad § Murdoch’s plan : block Google search § What’s going on in Russian poetry ? § Bolaño, Inc . “ Not a rebel ” Bolaño for beginners § My original 1979 talk on The New Sentence , all 3 hours & 4 minutes of it, or divided...

Jonathan Lethem on Art & The Digital Future

Open Culture (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

Jonathan Lethem, the writer behind Motherless Brooklyn (one of my faves) and Fortress of Solitude, has a new book out, Chronic City. Above, he talks about the surreal quality of his work, the future of digital books, and the personal guidelines that determine what he writes, and won’t write. Within this last point, you will [...]

Book Review: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Chronic City seems likes a typical buddy novel set in New York, until the robots and space weapons show up. Chronic City - New York - Jonathan Lethem - United States - Jonathan Lethem Chronic City