Jonathan Lethem






Jonathan Lethem

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born
February 19, 1964

gender
male

place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Paula Fox, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka


about this author

JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of seven novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harpers, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others.




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avg rating: 3.71 | 21,439 ratings | 2,779 reviews | 40 distinct works | 89 fans
Motherless Brooklyn Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.93 — 6,484 ratings — published 1999
21 editions
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The Fortress of Solitude The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.86 — 3,312 ratings — published 2003
21 editions
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Gun, with Occasional Music Gun, with Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.77 — 1,551 ratings — published 1994
13 editions
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As She Climbed Across the Tabl... As She Climbed Across the Table
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.62 — 1,103 ratings — published 1997
11 editions
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You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 2.68 — 1,323 ratings — published 2007
12 editions
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Men and Cartoons Men and Cartoons
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.44 — 828 ratings — published 2004
7 editions
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Amnesia Moon Amnesia Moon
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.51 — 737 ratings — published 1995
6 editions
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Girl in Landscape: A Novel Girl in Landscape: A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.60 — 678 ratings — published 1998
6 editions
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The Disappointment Artist: Ess... The Disappointment Artist: Essays
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.52 — 580 ratings — published 2005
6 editions
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The Wall of the Sky, the Wall... The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
by Jonathan Lethem
avg rating 3.67 — 387 ratings — published 1996
6 editions
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Jonathan Lethem on tour for the book "You Don't Love Me Yet (Vintage Contemporaries)"
Author appearance, November 08, 2009 12:00PM
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Auditorium, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, 60603, Chicago, IL, The United States

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Jonathan Lethem on tour for the book "Chronic City"
Author appearance, November 09, 2009 08:00PM
Wabash College, Ball Theater, Fine Arts Center, Crawfordsville, IN, The United States

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Author appearance, November 10, 2009 07:00PM
Left Bank Books, 399 North Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, The United States

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""I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.""
Jonathan Lethem (You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel)
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"Every room I've lived in since I was given my own room at eleven was lined with, and usually overfull of, books. My employment in bookstores was always continuous with my private hours: shelving and alphabetizing, building shelves, and browsing-- in my collection and others-- in order to understand a small amount about the widest possible number of books. Such numbers of books are constantly acquired that constant culling is necessary; if I slouch in this discipline, the books erupt. I've also bricked myself in with music--vinyl records, then compact discs. My homes have been improbably information-dense, like capsules for survival of a nuclear war, or models of the interior of my own skull. That comparison--room as brain-- is one I've often reached for in describing the rooms of others, but it began with the suspicion that I'd externalized my own brain, for anyone who cared to look."
Jonathan Lethem (The Disappointment Artist)
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"Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked."
Jonathan Lethem
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