Jonathan Lethem

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Wednesday, 7:30pm, Free A quick word on Jonathan Lethem--he's awesome. That's it. Because this guy is one of our favorite native sons. The author of Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage) and The Fortress of Solitude (Vintage) has the ability to ... More >>

A Brownie Recipe Found in Motherless Brooklyn

Following up on our post about bookseller Michael Popek's charming collection, Handwritten Recipes and Forgotten Bookmarks, here's a quick look at three recipes and the books they were found inside. Above, the Blonde Brownies found in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn. The fat called for in th ... More >>

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Harper's Magazine Writers Weigh In on Union Battle

​Some of the nastiest union battles erupt with employers whose hearts beat firmly on the left side of the political spectrum. Partly this is the result of hurt feelings: How could my workers be so distrustful? Another accelerant is the assumption that well-meaning bosses know best, a perceptio ... More >>

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Jonathan Lethem discusses They Live

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In the Footprint's Hoop Schemes

The Civilians charge into the Atlantic Yards project

Snooki Basically Charged as Existential Demon by N.J. Prosecutors

​And you thought Rod Blagojevich got off easy: Snooki has now been booked by Seaside Heights for that time she got arrested on the beach a few weeks ago. The charge?

Melissa Febos--Former Dominatrix--Talks Food Fetishes, Sexy Vegetarianism, and the Allure of a Tube of Cookie Dough

Melissa Febos knows from sexy vegetarians.​ Melissa Febos hosts the Mixer reading series at the Cakeshop on the Lower East Side, a delightfully low-key and hip night of live music and literature where one might see Jonathan Lethem read his latest work or witness Pulitzer-prize winning poet Pau ... More >>

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Vinyl Life: Not just hitting the space bar. Photo by David Herron.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla spends an evening at S.O.B.'s with BLK JKS and returns, a bit overwhelmed: "No band on the planet right now is overplaying with the titanic, fearless, stupendously excessive gusto of S ... More >>

Lit Seen: A Report From the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival

Gaitskill, Auster, Gessen—and Lupe Fiasco.

Author Mary Gaitskill Raps Das Racist's "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Really. MP3 and Everything.

Aehee Kang​We could tell you that this recording is from yesterday's day-ending, valedictory finale to the Brooklyn Book Festival, at which Don't Cry (and "Secretary") author Mary Gaitskill politely conversed with famed local Jonathan Lethem, as moderated by the NYTBR's Greg Cowles, but it doe ... More >>

Jonathan Lethem's New Chronic City Covered

Chronic City, the forthcoming novel from Jonathan Lethem, is among other things a homecoming: it's the first book of his set in New York since 2003's Fortress of Solitude. The cover certainly seems suited for a "searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies." B ... More >>

Long Lost Fortress of Solitude Mix CDs Found, Replicated

The Millions posts listenable soundtracks (via Pandora radio) to three books: Legs McNeil'sPlease Kill Me (MC5, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Ramones, Sex Pistols), Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life (Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfer ... More >>

The Ben Greenman Swamp Dogg Collabo Is Finally Here

New Yorker writer Ben Greenman's new novel Please Step Back is, in the tradition of Jonathan Lethem's You Don't Love Me Yet or DeLillo's Great Jones Street, a rock n' roll fantasy about a "funk rock" star plausibly named Rock Foxx. In the book, which is due out next week, Greenman bravely ventured s ... More >>

Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

Jonathan Lethem Reintroduces L.J. Davis and His Walls of Mucus in Park Slope

Stuff White People Like #124: Hand-Wringing Gentrification Tales. Case in point: A rapt crowd, 99.9% Caucasian, packed into Park Slope's Community Bookstore for L.J. Davis's March 31 reading from A Meaningful Life, his scathing 1971 satire about a reverse-pioneer from Idaho who tries to redeem his b ... More >>

Jonathan Lethem and L.J. Davis Bring Back A Meaningful Life

Week in Review: You Be Da Man! You Be Da Man!

Rebecca SmeyneStill so mad I missed this... This will seem strange, but the Oscars were not even a week ago. Not that they were all that memorable--at this point, we only retain a foggy recollection, something about a Beck song and James Franco recommending a certain book on the red carpet... To b ... More >>

Pulp Fictions: Jonathan Lethem's Omega: The Unknown and Nicholas Gurewitch's Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Omega: The Unknown By Jonathan Lethem, Karl Rusnak, Farel Dalrymple, and Paul Hornschemeier Marvel Although a hardcover edition of its 10-issue run was published in October, novelist-essayist Jonathan Lethem's audacious rema ... More >>

An Interview with Michael Almereyda

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Best Non-Music Writing 2009: The Blake Lethem Story Retold

Kind of a fascinating day for investigative reporting in places I generally find links to sneakers and the like. Complex offers today the story of Blake Lethem, alias KEO, whose years as a graffiti writer and proto-M.C. provided the model, in part, for the narrator of his older brother Jonathan Le ... More >>

New Jonathan Lethem Story: "Walking the Moons"

Heavy Rotation: James Wood, Music Critic?

Jonathan Lethem: We're the Joker; McCain's Batman; Obama Settles for Wall-E

Jonathan Lethem on I'm Not Jim

Brooklyn Book Festival: Joan Didion, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Price Triumphant

I'm Not Jim Pair with Big-Shot Novelist; Gawkiness Ensues

Youse Got Literature at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Back for its third year, the ever-growing book fest aims for some international flair

Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Jonathan Lethem Head Up Brooklyn Book Festival

Download This Now: Hallelujah the Hills, "Monster Eyes"

America's Next Top Supernovel

Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

Steal this Band

Theft and plagiarism are at the heart of Jonathan Lethem's rock 'n' roll novel

Future, Unscripted

Fall pilots: Real deal, or no deal?

Abridge This!

Audioshave: What sort of book could be cut in half without losing a certain something?

The Five Distractions

Schmucks, yuks, HK cool, film school, and a sociology experiment: 2004's best DVD sets

Amnesia Girls and Strange Sprays: We're in Lethem-Land

Beyond the Pansy Patch

In the future shadow of the Nets, a Brooklyn nabe remembers what's at stake

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Brooklyn Belongs to Me

With the Fortress of Solitude, Genre Maestro Jonathan Lethem Immortalizes His Old Neighborhood

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