Jonathan Lethem

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Writing in the free world
Jonathan Lethem explains why copyright laws stifle creativity and why he's giving away the film option to his new novel.
Catch up on a week's worth of free songs
Wilco, Richard Thompson, Patti Smith and a song from the new Jonathan Lethem book this week on Audiofile.
Novel sounds
Jonathan Lethem's fictional music made real.
Destination: Brooklyn
From Betty Smith to Jonathan Lethem to Truman Capote, the chroniclers of this brownstone-lined borough are as diverse as the millions of people who live there.
Writing in the Margins
Our monthly roundup of indie publishing: DC Comics terrifies with Lovecraft; Lethem and Denis Johnson do avant-cabaret; a harrowing tale of the 1997 Red River flood.
He's a lover -- and also a hater
Dale Peck, the madman critic famous for his trash jobs on Moody, Eggers and Franzen, talks about forgiving his abusive father in his new "fictional memoir" and wonders why we can't all get along.
The dreamer of Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem's astonishing "The Fortress of Solitude" places him in the first rank of American novelists.
It's Genetic
Kiss frontman goes gaga for big breasts; Madonna puts kibosh on free tickets; Julianne Moore denies cannibal sex scene. Plus: Kidman throws hat back in man race!
Secret pleasures of Salon Premium
Author Jonathan Lethem explains why you should subscribe.
Stuttering and uncovering
Steve Buscemi is Tourettic detective Lionel Essrog in Jonathan Lethem's novel "Motherless Brooklyn."
What you lookin' at?
Three writers talk about growing up white in a black neighborhood.
Jonathan Lethem
"Motherless Brooklyn"
Salon Book Awards
Ten titles that kept us up all night in 1999
Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn
Screened out
The author of "Motherless Brooklyn" spotlights five terrific novels overshadowed by their film versions.
Who killed Brooklyn?
Novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to his hometown to find it almost as strange as his own fiction.
"Motherless Brooklyn"
An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel: A narrator with Tourette's syndrome.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Mementos from the pre-millennium
Dredged from the 1998 archives of art, pop culture and politics, Steve Erickson offers his own private cultural canon.
Hurlyburly
Director Anthony Drazan successfully brings the sexist, self-destructive camaraderie of 'Hurlyburly' to the screen.
Scream queen
Ian McKellen gives a virtuoso performance as early Hollywood's only ecstatically "out" gay director in 'Gods and Monsters.
Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays And Criticism From A Lifelong Love Affair With The Movies
Jonathan Lethem reviews 'Totally, Tenderly, Tragically' by Phillip Lopate.
Noir way out
Jonathan Lethem reviews 'Hit Me,' directed by Steve Shainberg and starring Elias Koteas, Laure Marsac and William H. Macy.
Not a warm puppy
Jonathan Lethem reviews 'Happiness,' directed by Todd Solondz and starring Jane Adams, Dylan Baker and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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