Torontoist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
This morning, Books@Torontoist editor Erin Balser sat down with Brooklyn-based writer Jonathan Lethem. The author of the bestselling The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn discussed his most recent project, Chronic City , a largely plotless tale of two men navigating an alternate Manhattan—one where The New York Times publishes a war-free issue, the city smells of chocolate, it snows...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The author talks to John Barber about his journey from the Brooklyn of his earlier books to the delirious, fantastical Manhattan of his new novel
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Author Jonathan Lethem has added an event to his marathon reading of his new and acclaimed book, Chronic City and WORD, a bookstore in Greenpoint, is hosting. This relaxed brunch event is on Sunday after Thanksgiving. That means that on Sunday, Nov. 29 from 12:30 PM until 2:30 PM, there will be a post-holiday reading in their event space. Lethem will read about 40-60 pages from his latest novel, but...
Line Out (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Up & Coming : Joker, MC Nomad, Introcut, Sublo Joker's productions bear dubstep's serious low-end pressure, but they move and sparkle with a lightness that's anything but ponderous, as much of the genre's output can be. His melodies possess a sort of comic-book vividness (and, at times, melodrama), coming over alternately ominous and whimsical, but always memorable; check out "City Hopper"...
Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the past couple of years I have been commenting on each piece of fiction appearing in The New Yorker, and I've also been naming at Story of the Year with the help of my readers. The winner of the New Yorker Story of the Year for 2008 was the terrific "Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris. And now it is time to turn our attention to this year's stories. Please leave a comment here, or send me...
Mindful Hack (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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Pen On Fire (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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)
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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.
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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...
Blades Out (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
My reading in the last couple of weeks has slowed to a crawl, at least by my normally frantic pace. In those weeks, I've moved across town, which always takes more out of you than when you cross state lines and travel thousands of miles, and I've tried to maintain the Warwick's Twitter feed , Facebook page , and blog as much as possible during my days, which is proving to be just as hard as keeping...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Photo by Keith Tuma Mark Weiss’ introduction to The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry § The drama of Jimmy Schuyler 9 unpublished poems by Schuyler § Talking with Beverly Dahlen ( part one ) ( part two ) § Is Tim Gunn the perfect literary critic? (Stephen Burt tries to make it work) § A profile of Keith Waldrop § Rachel Blau DuPlessis at Bard § William Carlos...
Thumb drives and oven clocks (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Syndication? Re-runs? What is this, Family Ties ? Not so awesome, but close: my Identity Theory review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City hit Powell's Review-a-Day over the weekend . So, now, you know, if you missed it the first time, here's your chance to take home a little bit of dislike of your own.
Who Walk In Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
“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 [...]
Outside Counsel (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
For some reason I'd missed this: a Bob Dylan interview by Jonathan Lethem . (Actually, I know why I missed it: it was in Rolling Stone.) "Let me take a moment and reintroduce myself, your interviewer and guide here. I'm a forty-two-year-old moonlighting novelist, and a lifelong Dylan fan, but one who, it must be emphasized, doesn't remember the Sixties. I'm no longer a young man, but I am young...
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