Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Allen Lethem 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.
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Journeyman himself had a kind of tone deafness when it came to Eastern stuff, or at least to the Eastern stuff spouted by Westerners who fancied themselves enlightened.
Chapter 4, “The Pillow Book of Jerome Kormentz” (p. 11)
This was before cell phones. The desolate spaciousness between humans, between human moments, not yet filled in with chattering ghosts of reassurance.
Chapter 7, “The Starlet Apartments, Part 1” (p. 29)
OK, so he’s a producer, right?” Lucius spoke as a prosecuting attorney, nailing down established facts.
Chapter 43, “Dinner with Jane and Lucius” (p. 171)
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Paul DanoAlso in Light and the Sufferer (2008)
Dallas RobertsAlso in Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
Dave EggersAlso in As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005)
Paolo CognettiAlso in Writing New York: Lethem (2004)
Elizabeth RodriguezAlso in Tonight at Noon
Joseph SiravoAlso in Motherless Brooklyn (2019)About this person
Jonathan Allen Lethem 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. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.
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