Pen On Fire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
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) | 23 hours ago
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by Keith Tuma Mark Weiss’ introduction to The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry § The drama of Jimmy Schuyler 9 unpublished poems by Schuyler § Talking with Beverly Dahlen ( part one ) ( part two ) § Is Tim Gunn the perfect literary critic?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...
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem, a review from Identity Theory by Darby M. Dixon III .
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The writer reads from his latest novel, "Chronic City," tonight. For more information, call 718-387-7322. ...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
By Paula Fox A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem One Manhattan mid-morning in the spring of 1967, I heard the crack of a gun going off below, along the broad reach of Central Park West. I jumped up from the table where I was working on my second novel and looked down five stories to the street, on the other side of which breathed the quiet greenery of Central Park....
I Am a Tie-in Writer (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Over at Jeff Vandermeer's blog , authors Dan Abnett and Mark Charan Newton discuss the challenges of writing tie-ins vs non-franchise fiction. Here's an excerpt: Mark Charan Newton : You see it frequently these days – a literary fiction star such as Jonathan Lethem wanting to write a comic strip for Omega the Unknown, or Jodi Piccoult writing a Wonder Woman series. There’s a sense of reverence...
let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
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Second Verse (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I’m reading Jonathan’s Lethem’s latest novel, Chronic City. The first chapter is a quirky, compelling read, focused on the burgeoning friendship of two very different men in a Manhattan that creeps into every bit of characterization. And while I love a good opening, there’s a ton to admire in the way Lethem broadside of The [...]
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Miami New Times interviews author Jonathan Lethem. What differentiates Chronic City for you from your other novels, besides the fact that it's the first one set in Manhattan? I put a lot of effort into making each novel different,...
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