Jonathan Lethemauthor profile |
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| born | February 19, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Brooklyn, New York, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| website | http://www.jonathanlethem.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| influences | Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Paula Fox, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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books by Jonathan Lethemcombine editionsavg rating: 3.72 | 11475 ratings | 20 distinct works
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quotes by Jonathan Lethem
"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)
— Jonathan Lethem (The Disappointment Artist)
"Destroy the traces. I’d never tried to do that. Instead I’d lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible."
— Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude)
— Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude)
"As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another."
— Jonathan Lethem (Men and Cartoons: Stories)
— Jonathan Lethem (Men and Cartoons: Stories)











