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Jonathan Lethem
Author profile
born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
February 19, 1964
gender
male
website
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influences
Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dic...more
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Motherless Brooklyn
— published 1999 — 30 editions |
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The Fortress of Solitude
— published 2003 — 36 editions |
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Gun, With Occasional Music
— published 1994 — 23 editions |
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Chronic City
— 17 editions |
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As She Climbed Across the Table
— published 1997 — 13 editions |
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You Don't Love Me Yet
— published 2007 — 29 editions |
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Amnesia Moon
— published 1995 — 9 editions |
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Girl in Landscape
— published 1998 — 11 editions |
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Men and Cartoons
— published 2002 — 16 editions |
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The Disappointment Artist
— published 2005 — 12 editions |
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November 2009,
Jonathan Lethem
"While New York is never named in this apocalyptic phantasmagoria, Delany is a child of Harlem and Greenwich Village, and Dhalgren is really a beautifully allegorized New York coming-of-age novel, albeit with two suns in the sky." ...More
"While New York is never named in this apocalyptic phantasmagoria, Delany is a child of Harlem and Greenwich Village, and Dhalgren is really a beautifully allegorized New York coming-of-age novel, albeit with two suns in the sky." ...More
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“Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.”
― Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
― Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
“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
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet
“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
― Jonathan Lethem
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