Jonathan Lethem has one of the most eclectic literary careers around, ranging from science fiction to realismand sometimes, both at onceand from long-form nonfiction to comic books. He’s netted ...

Jonathan Lethem's new book, "A Different Kind of Tension," is a collection of 30 stories from his 35-year career. The stories are described as genre-bending, speculative, and imaginative, often with ...

His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades. By Leo Robson In “Brooklyn Crime Novel,” the veteran author transports readers to a conflicted time in the ...

Lethem (Brooklyn Crime Novel) offers a revelatory career-spanning collection of 30 fantastical and speculative stories, all but 11 of which have appeared in previous volumes. Among the ...

It is conventional wisdom that Jonathan Lethem is a Brooklyn author — or was one, until the publication of Dissident Gardens. His most famous novels, after all — Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of ...

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Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens (Doubleday) chronicles a lost generation of Jewish socialists who lived in Queens in the mid-twentieth century. Lethem’s idealistic iconoclasts believed in civil ...

For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999’s Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette’s syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he’d already written ...

Jonathan Lethem has been teaching in Pomona College's English department since 2010, when he succeeded David Foster Wallace as the Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing.Audrey Shia PO '2 ...

What drew you to Portis? His incredible sense of humor and play on the page. You read someone and you feel like they're having so much fun! His lack of pretension, his dialogue. And the way there's ...

Marlowe Lee was off the clock, 12 more hours in the can, but Call-Me-Jessie had changed the closing procedure, and now, for the second week running, Marlowe had to do final cleanup and lockup after ...

Critically-acclaimed author and former MacArthur fellow Jonathan Lethem looks for a certain dynamism in his music, from life-affirming pop and inventive covers to distinctive harmonies. He’ll be ...