The writer talks about his new novel's ambivalent take on New York, and how cultural obsession can lead to madness
By Kerry Lauerman Oct 23, 2009
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Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem and others suggest classics, thrillers and big fat books to take to the beach.
June 5, 2009
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Jonathan Lethem explains why copyright laws stifle creativity and why he's giving away the film option to his new novel.
By Amy Benfer
March 25, 2007
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Wilco, Richard Thompson, Patti Smith and a song from the new Jonathan Lethem book this week on Audiofile.
March 24, 2007
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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.
By Phillip Lopate
July 3, 2006
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Jonathan Lethem's fictional music made real.
March 22, 2007
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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.
By Scott Thill
May 13, 2004
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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.
By Virginia Vitzthum
December 12, 2003
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Jonathan Lethem's astonishing "The Fortress of Solitude" places him in the first rank of American novelists.
By Peter Kurth
September 12, 2003
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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!
By Amy Reiter
July 12, 2001
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Author Jonathan Lethem explains why you should subscribe.
May 15, 2001
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Steve Buscemi is Tourettic detective Lionel Essrog in Jonathan Lethem's novel "Motherless Brooklyn."
January 18, 2001
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Three writers talk about growing up white in a black neighborhood.
By Jonathan Lethem, Dalton Conley and Phillip Lopate
December 14, 2000
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"Motherless Brooklyn"
By Jonathan Lethem
October 5, 2000
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Motherless Brooklyn
By Jonathan Lethem
December 16, 1999
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Cryptonomicon
By Neal Stephenson
December 16, 1999
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Ten titles that kept us up all night in 1999
By Laura Miller and Craig Seligman
December 16, 1999
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By Jonathan Lethem
October 18, 1999
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An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel: A narrator with Tourette's syndrome.
By Gary Krist
September 23, 1999
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Novelist Jonathan Lethem returns to his hometown to find it almost as strange as his own fiction.
By Lorin Stein
September 23, 1999
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By Greil Marcus
September 20, 1999
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Director Anthony Drazan successfully brings the sexist, self-destructive camaraderie of 'Hurlyburly' to the screen.
By Jonathan Lethem
December 23, 1998
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Dredged from the 1998 archives of art, pop culture and politics, Steve Erickson offers his own private cultural canon.
By Steve Erickson
December 23, 1998
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Ian McKellen gives a virtuoso performance as early
Hollywood's only ecstatically "out" gay director in 'Gods and Monsters.
By Jonathan Lethem
November 20, 1998
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Jonathan Lethem
reviews 'Totally, Tenderly, Tragically' by Phillip Lopate.
By Jonathan Lethem
November 6, 1998
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