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In an interview with Literary Hub, [5] “Jonathan Lethem on the Wishfulness of Dystopian Fiction,” Lethem discussed utopic urges that underlie his fascination with the genre. “I think my attraction growing up to reading dystopian and post-apocalyptic stories mingled a lot of different kinds of appetite and yearning and wondering with fears ...
Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ ˈ l iː θ əm /; [1] born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel , Gun, with Occasional Music , a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction , was published in 1994.
Lethem began work on Chronic City in early 2007, [2] and has said that the novel is "set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it’s strongly influenced by Saul Bellow, Philip K. Dick, Charles Finney and Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and it concerns a circle of friends including a faded child-star actor, a cultural critic, a hack ghost-writer of autobiographies, and a city official."
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the director of "Me And Earl and the Dying Girl," will next direct a filmed adaptation of "The Fortress of Solitude," the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Jonathan Lethem, an ...
While the show featured regular guest interviews with authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, and Miranda July, and musicians as diverse as Laura Veirs, Don Byron, and k.d. lang, it also had several recurring segments.
You Don't Love Me Yet (2007) is a comic novel about alternative music from Jonathan Lethem, set in modern Los Angeles. The novel takes its title from two (otherwise unconnected) songs of the same title by Roky Erickson and The Vulgar Boatmen. The original title was Monster Eyes, but Lethem was convinced to change it by his publisher. He later ...
Interview with Donald Breckenridge (Los Angeles Review of Books), 2016; Podcast Interview with Michael Silverblatt (KCRW), 2016; Christopher Sorrentino by Dana Spiotta Bomb, 2016; Interview with Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running) 2011; Interviewed with Jonathan Lethem by Clark Collis (EW.com) 2010; Interview with J.D. Mitchell (The Paris Review) 2010
Lately, popular culture has focused on the dazzling ’80s of Tartt, Jonathan Lethem, and Bret Easton Ellis, but I’ve found myself thinking about the darker ’60s, the era Joan Didion described ...