The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Je Banach, whose fiction has appeared in Esquire and is engaged in a collaborative fiction project with Jonathan Lethem, sent us these words on David Foster Wallace's suicide, which we share with you today. With Great Abandon: The Perils of...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
If I were ever invited to join a secret cabal of culturally wise writers - the kind of club where you'd find Erik Davis, Douglas Wolk, Jonathan Lethem, or Luc Sante all sipping absinthe while deconstructing reruns of Man From Uncle - I imagine it would also host the kinds of women who are writing the books that have ended up in my mailbox this month. Jessica Helfand's Scrapbooks is a well-documented...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Jonathan Lethem — Lee them !—is the object of pretty much round the clock obsession here at Sound of the City. Combine that and our other bourgeois tastes—the New York Times, comic books, criticizing The Dark Knight for being a subliminal fascist vehicle of the terrifying new world order —and a Lethem op-ed on a Sunday when we have nothing else to do will occasional spark an orgy of coverage. Not...
escapegrace (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Jonathan Lethem has joined the ranks of lit-music crossovers like Stephen King and Rick Moody with his participation in I'm Not Jim .
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Tomorrow night literary great Jonathan Lethem, author of many fine tomes (most of which I can vouch for), is going to appear in conversation with Greil Marcus, author of, seemingly, seven million equally wonderful words on American culture in general, rock music in particular. (Fun fact: Marcus wrote the preface to Luc Sante’s latest, which [...]
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
While entertainers may skew elections , entertainment seems to increasingly be the lens through which America is figuring out its political landscape. Witness Jonathan Lethem's op-ed in yesterday's Times , in which the novelist (and, uh, musician ) essentially equates the raving incoherence of The Dark Knight 's simpering Joker with the apparent craving of most Americans to have the most addled, distracted,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Over the weekend, novelist Jonathan Lethem returned from his fortress of solitude in Maine (with a new novel in the can, we speculate). At a time when most writers would crack a bottle of champagne, this comic-book obsessed novelist took a crack at Batman instead. His New York Times op-ed added more fuel to the summer's dueling metaphor debate about Batman's politics-- did the caped crusader support...
Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The Art of Darkness by Jonathan Lethem NY Times ... If, like me, you’d hoped, distantly, vaguely, probably idiotically, that the 2008 presidential contest might be a referendum on truths documented since the previous presidential election, guess again. That our Iraqi invasion was founded on opportunistic lies, that it was hungered for by its planners in advance of the enabling excuse of 9/11, is a...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Today's must-read: Jonathan Lethem has emerged from "the salt mine of a novel-in-progress" and finally caught up with the year's big movie. A single snippet won't do the piece justice, but here we go: "No wonder we crave an...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
WHEN Jonathan Lethem, author of such celebrated novels as "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude," received an offer from one of his favorite musicians to collaborate, all his literary skill did little to make rock 'n' roll an easy fit...
Fimoculous.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Compare: Neal Stephenson's NYT op-ed about 300 from 18 months ago to Jonathan Lethem's NYT op-ed about Batman from today.
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Novelist Jonathan Lethem is well known for the beautiful invocations of pop music in his books. He's also written a fair amount of music essays, guest-edited a Da Capo Best Music Writing anthology , and even coerced fanboy bands into recording " Monster Eyes ," the fictional centerpiece of his rock-and-roll novel You Don't Love Me Yet . Now Lethem's making music himself with the alt-country duo I'm...
Marvel News (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Jonathan Lethem's OMEGA THE UNKNOWN collected in a special hardcover edition. Get the scoop on the book, set to release on October 7, 2008, right here.
Syntax of Things (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Jonathan Lethem takes a break from writing novels about music to write...lyrics for music:"You Are All My People," which comes out today on Bloodshot Records, is the first album by I'm Not Jim, a collaboration featuring the vocals and guitar...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Brooklyn Book Festival Sunday, September 14 Borough Hall It was a late Saturday Los Angeles Times article that broke the news of David Foster Wallace's death for most of us, and it was their book editor David Ulin's quote, describing the scene at Saturday's National Book Critics Circle Board meeting in New York City, that best summed up the character of a weekend most of literary Brooklyn had been...
