the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | yesterday
In The keys to the kingdom of fiction in The Guardian they note that: 'The Villa Gillet has been asking writers who attend the International Forum on the Novel to select a word which underpins their work. Jonathan Lethem, Adam Thirlwell, Nuruddin Farah and James Meek explain how the words they've chosen are key to their writing'.
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
She’s back, pimpin’ out notable new releases to place on your radar! PHILIP K. DICK: FIVE NOVELS OF THE 1960S & 70S by Philip K. Dick, edited by Jonathan Lethem — Philip K. Dick was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. “The floor joists of [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Villa Gillet has been asking writers who attend the International Forum on the Novel to select a word which underpins their work. Jonathan Lethem, Adam Thirlwell, Nuruddin Farah and James Meek explain how the words they've chosen are key to their writing
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I just finished Jonathan Lethem, Karl Rusnak and Farel Dalrymple's ten issue mini-series reboot of Omega the Unknown. I quite enjoyed it. Probably one of the stranger Marvel Comics I've ever read, and the way Lethe, et al. develop the...
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The book-focused scifi gathering Readercon starts on Thursday, and includes guests of honor Jonathan Lethem and James Patrick Kelly. It also includes the first public showing of the late Thomas Disch... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I almost forgot that I had read this last month. Not to say that the stories aren't memorable, just that by now it's blurring in my head what books I have read this year that I have still not blogged reviews for. And now I can't find my copy. Maybe I lent it out. I was reminded that I read this when I saw a stack of Lethem books on my daily walk to the same bookstore (they must get sick of seeing me,...
Jamespeak (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Okay, buckle the fuck up, bitches. The latest installment of The Drafthouse is coming up in about a week and you should check it out. I actually saw a version of this about...oh, when was it? Two years ago now?...with Isaac Butler and Jonathan Lethem. Below are the details. Horse Trade presents The Drafthouse @ Under St. Marks A play reading salon This month: Their Back Pages based on the story by...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Jonathan Lethem is in a band with the Silos’ Walter Salas-Humara. First album is out on Bloodshot Records in September. (Via.)
Dissensus (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
I really, really dug AMNESIA MOON which is like a Jeter/PKD sci-fi cyberpunk novel with some weird reality shifts, and also dug GIRL In LANDSCAPE..I am currently reading THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE which is pretty good, but feels too much like a fucken Spike Lee movie put to a book - it's so...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Last summer, I told you when Lewis Shiner started giving his short stories away online . Now he's moving on to his novels, beginning with the recently published Black & White , which Jonathan Lethem describes as "social realism so urgent and committed as to be an act of witnessing." (And Lethem doesn't blurb often, so you know there's something really significant going on in these pages.) Shiner told...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
It’s all about what you know, and what you don’t. For instance, I don’t know how much David J Schwartz’ first novel has in common with the rest of the recent mini-glut of prose superhero stories; I haven’t read Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude, or Minister Faust’s From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, or Austin [...]
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Michael Saler takes a probing look at the rise of geek — and specifically comic book — culture: But critics of genre are increasingly counter-balanced by prominent proponents and practitioners, including Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem and Junot Diaz. The Library of America has published elegant editions of authors who only two [...]
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Lewis Shiner’s new multi-generational thriller, complete with a murder and race riot, is in stock and shipping. Here’s what Jonathan Lethem had to say about the book: “Black & White, Lewis Shiner’s long-awaited return to the novel, is social realism so urgent and committed as to be an act of witnessing. Like books by Richard [...]
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Plagiarism To the Best of Our Knowledge Host: Steve Paulson SEGMENT 1: Author Jonathan Lethem talks to Jim Fleming about his "Harper's" Magazine essay, "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism." As the subtitle indicates, Jonathan Lethem appropriated the words of many authors to cover the subject of plagiarism, although he provides full attribution of his sources at the end of the essay. Also, Paul...
ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
VIDEO: At Copyright Clearance Center's 2008 copyright conference, Paul Holdengraber, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Tribe and Suzanne Vega discuss the impact of copyright on Art.
