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	A Boy from Brooklyn Grows Up (Gotham Gazette. November 28, 2005)
		Jonathan Lethem: Well, you know, I was living in California when I first left college, and this was when I began to try to become a fiction writer, and I was 19, 20, 21, and at that point I don’t think I could’ve contended with the material of Brooklyn.
		Jonathan Lethem: Well, one thing that I’ve felt is that a couple of times when people have spoken to me about the book, is that they will speak as though I’ve given them a window onto a time when you had to think about what streets you walked down.
		Jonathan Lethem: Well, I had made a long practice by now, I mean I had really gotten away with, for quite a while, of being very obstinate about disappointing expectations, because none of the books have been like one another.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/fea/20051128/202/1661 (7791 words)

	Jonathan Lethem
		Jonathan Lethem is an author of speculative fiction best known for his novels The Fortress of Solitude, Gun, With Occasional Music, Motherless Brooklyn, As She Climbed Across the Table, Girl in Landscape, and Amnesia Moon.
		Lethem was poor about attending classes, feeling that his prior background cancelled out their necessity, and while still in his first semester he dropped out.
		Lethem's brother, Blake, attained brief notoriety as a graffiti artist after painting a mural used as a backdrop for presidential candidate Howard Dean.
	www.nndb.com /people/546/000029459 (857 words)

	Powell's Books - Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem
		Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers — nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original.
		Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers — a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles.
		Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named novel of the year by Esquire.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0385512163 (871 words)

	Amazon.de: The Fortress of Solitude. A Novel.: English Books: Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Lethem seems to have devoured the '70s, '80s and '90s-inhaled them whole-and he reproduces them faithfully on the page, in prose as supple as silk and as bright, explosive and illuminating as fireworks.
		Lethem is a tremendous writer, and in the first half he uses magnificent language to capture the complexity of a child's worldview.
		Lethem explores many avenues: the origins of gentrification, the development of soul music, the genealogy of graffiti, the seeds of the crack epidemic.
	www.amazon.de /Fortress-Solitude-Novel-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0571219365 (1143 words)

	BookPage Interview September 2003: Jonathan Lethem
		Jonathan Lethem has spent the better part of his literary career circling the one book everyone knew he would eventually write: the big Brooklyn novel.
		Lethem's parents were among the first wave of bohemians, radicals and artists to decamp into the blighted inner-city neighborhood in the early '70s, well before gentrification became a household curse word.
		Lethem, who attended Bennington College, likewise dispatches Dylan to Vermont, where he first discovers the sad truth: any identity he might ever hope for is hostage to the harsh realities of life back on Dean Street.
	www.bookpage.com /0309bp/jonathan_lethem.html (1027 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Jonathan Lethem
		Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original.
		Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new listeners-- a smorgasbord of fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles.
		Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. In this unique collection he creates an anthology that no one else could. He draws on the work of such unforgettables as Julio Cortazar, who presents a man caught between the ancient and modern worlds unable to...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=17368 (1046 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Jonathan Lethem
		In the four years following the appearance of Jonathan Lethem's first novel, a surreal, futuristic noir called Gun, with Occasional Music, the author covered a tremendous amount of fictional territory: a post-apocalyptic road novel (Amnesia Moon), a hilarious academic parody (As She Climbed across the Table), and a western in outer space (Girl in Landscape).
		Lethem: One thing I could say, which is very specific, is I had this book in mind, and in some ways was already daring myself to try to write it, before I thought of Motherless Brooklyn.
		Lethem: The fundamental difference, which is a strength and like quicksand at the same time, is that criticism of other art forms is nevertheless conducted in the medium of prose.
	www.powells.com /authors/lethem.html (4019 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Straight outta Brooklyn
		Lethem's book gives you the intimate biography of almost every one of the buildings here, the corner stores and graffitied walls, the paving stones whose cracks he knew by heart from childhood games.
		Lethem says that by the time he got there it wasn't hard to write, and that though there are obviously elements of that story in music and films, he knew of no real equivalent in books.
		Lethem believes that much of his work, including this latest novel, in which Dylan's mother disappears from his life, is a way of approaching the 'vast, howling loss' he felt at her death - 'in my third novel there is an actual fl hole that swallows everything you love'.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1106351,00.html (2903 words)

	Books of Brooklyn and Beyond - December 9, 2004 - The New York Sun
		Jonathan Lethem says he is "constantly credited as having been born in Brooklyn because it makes more sense to people." So, for the record, Mr.
		Lethem - author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude," Boerum Hill resident, and self-described "mascot writer for the neighborhood" - was born in Manhattan.
		Lethem's first four novels were experiments in form that didn't dwell on his Brooklyn upbringing.
	www.nysun.com /article/6021 (430 words)

	Amazon.de: Amnesia Moon: English Books: Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		I started reading Jonathan Lethem with _As She Climbed Across the Table_ which I thought was funny, sharp, tho small.
		Lethem had me in stitches with "Motherless Brooklyn." After reading this, I found I had two more Lethem on the basement bookshelves.
		Lethem should delete this apple from his ouevre before it rots the whole basket.
	www.amazon.de /Amnesia-Moon-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0312862202 (1153 words)

	Bold Type: Jonathan Lethem
		Essrog, with his lovable tics and compulsions, embarks on a journey that is as much an existential search as it is a manhunt.
		In Jonathan Lethem's deft hands, even Brooklyn itself becomes one of the main characters in this deliriously funny novel.
		Lethem is a literary risk-taker, in full command of his conflated and inventive art.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0999/lethem (213 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Fortress of Solitude: Books: Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Lethem writes about childhood with deft fingers, building our belief in the altered state of ten-year-olds by deconstructing, scene by scene, the epistemology of his child protagonist.
		This was the first time I read Jonathan Lethem, and for the first 20 or 30 pages I was undergoing a sense of shock regarding what a tremendously talented writer he is. His descriptive power is wonderful, and he paints his New York setting with great depth and compassion, but...
		Jonathan Lethem's FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE is a graceful and lyrical look at the friendship between two boys, Dylan and Mingus who are, respectively, white and fl.
	www.amazon.ca /Fortress-Solitude-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0375724885 (2401 words)

	Men And Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem: Reviews
		Lethem is undoubtedly a writer of many and great talents--not least of which the ability to make us laugh even when we're not really sure what's going on--but sometimes his stories veer too far into the esoteric and threaten to lose us.
		Lethem's writerly hallucinations and metafictional devices can be too knowing and, yes, a little nerdy.
		This is unsurprising given the breadth of Lethem's writings, which runs from fairly straightforward literary fiction to sci-fi.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/lethemjonathan/menandcartoons (555 words)

	The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem: Reviews
		By conflating rich critical insight with moving emotional subtext, Jonathan Lethem has produced a disarming treatise on the essential connectivity between life and art.
		Lethem succeeds in granting readers insights not only into his passions but also into their own.
		Jonathan Lethem offers a probing critique of art forms and artists that are frequently underestimated, narrates his own creative genesis, and writes poignantly about the way we engage with our idols.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/lethemjonathan/disappointmentartist (470 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST by Jonathan Lethem
		In THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTIST, novelist Jonathan Lethem examines some of the influences that have shaped him, as an artist and as a person.
		Lethem grew up mainly in Brooklyn, son of a painter and a bohemian mother who died of a brain tumor when the writer was in his early teens.
		Hoyt-Schermerhorn was his station in a rough neighborhood and the essay reflects his fear in being easy prey as a young boy on his own, as well as his fascination with the vibrant city all around him.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0385512171.asp (497 words)

	"Men and Cartoons," by Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Lethem, however, lavishes most of his authorial attention upon the spray itself, thus undercutting any emotional response the reader may have had.
		He also spoke about his interest in the "unfinished man." Lethem's main characters are usually men who have yet to come into their own.
		The problem is Lethem's reliance upon pop culture materials, such as old issues of "The Avengers" or Rahsaan Roland Kirk albums, to indicate a character's failures and immaturity.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04326/414485.stm (673 words)

	The Sideshow: Jonathan Lethem's "Super Goat Man"
		Gone are the surreal highways and Chandler-filtered futures of Lethem’s journeyman career, or even the jaundiced-eye he cast on Beauchamp University, the setting of his novel As She Climbed Across the Table.
		It’s an unfortunate relocation, because the elements really are funny, particularly the running gag of the bland super hero continually popping up in Everett’s life, first in his student days, then later as Everett seeks a job at his alma mater.
		Everett is a departure from form that I hope Lethem avoids in the future.
	www.themodernword.com /sideshow/lethem_goat.html (482 words)

	Jonathan Lethem: Girl In Landscape
		Jonathan Lethem has always drawn from disparate sources for his novels, from the Chandleresque Gun, With Occasional Music to the Lewis Carroll influenced As She Climbed Across the Table.
		Like Lethem, Efram knows more about the Planet of the Archbuilders than he is willing to let the rest of the characters (or, in the case of Lethem, the readers) know.
		Jonathan Lethem is one of the authors for whom science fiction is an inadequate label.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/landscape.html (774 words)

	LitKicks: Jonathan Lethem Protests Frank Gehry Building in Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Lethem's article (which is not badly written -- I like phrases like "a gang of 16 towers") lists seven points against the continuation of the Frank Gehry/Bruce Ratner project, which I would like to briefly address, one by one.
		Lethem points to mockups and design projections that make the building look shoddy, but it seems these specific illustrations were chosen to serve that purpose.
		I challenge Jonathan Lethem to look into Frank Gehry's catalog and find examples of buildings Gehry has done that have not improved their surroundings.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=LethemGehry (1069 words)

	Temple Times: Jonathan Lethem visits Temple
		Jonathan Lethem imbues his novels and short stories with a superhero mythos — in his latest novel, Fortress of Solitude, two Brooklyn boys use a secret ring to conjure Aeroman, an airborne do-gooder who defends their neighborhood.
		At 40, Lethem is a leading name in contemporary literature, and for every book received with critical plaudits, his celebrity mounts.
		Lethem’s public reading, part of the program’s Poets and Writers Series, is set for Thursday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m.
	www.temple.edu /temple_times/9-30-04/lethem.html (687 words)

	Bookreporter.com - MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN by Jonathon Lethem
		Yet, Lethem is far too dedicated a wordsmith to allow his narrative to play out as a conventional murder mystery, far too gifted to let language take a back seat to crime solving.
		In Essrog, Lethem has fashioned a medium through which the inherently deceptive, duplicitous and associative nature of language, lurking below normal human consciousness, is finally thrust to the surface and made recognizable.
		Secondly, Lethem relies on some pretty old crime noir standbys to paint his picture, like the hyper-Italianized, silent but nodding mob bosses who probably eat a lot of chicken parmigiana and love their mothers fiercely.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375724834.asp (649 words)

	Jonathan Lethem -- All Books
		Jonathan Lethem, on the other hand, avoids the plucky sidekick syndrome and instead gives us breathtakingly realistic Pella Marsh, a girl at that awful and wonderful crux in her life just before people start calling her woman.
		At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders--home to a curious group of enigmatic aborigines that baffles and frightens human visitors.
		Jonathan Lethem continues his unique brand of storytelling with this collection of seven short works.
	www.non.com /books/Lethem_Jonathan_cc.html (711 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Fortress of Solitude: Books: Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The mercurial Lethem attempts the great Amercian novel and the result, while erratic and uneven, is still a damn fine read, full of invention, intelligence and wonderful prose.
		The story being told by Lethem is so broad, and at the same time so simple that capturing it in a couple of short paragraphs seems like folly to attempt.
		Lethem has fashioned the world of the Brooklyn neighborhood and of Dylan's childhood absolutely perfectly.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fortress-Solitude-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0571219330 (1496 words)

	Timothy McSweeney's Worldwide Fondness: Jonathan Lethem: The McSweeney's Interview -- In Its Entirety Thus Far
		Lethem has made many books, including Gun with Occasional Music, a scathing renunciation of Neo-Orthodox Catholicism, and Girl in Landscape, a reevaluation of British foreign policy after the Opium War.
		We are proud to have Jonathan Lethem as the first subject of these, the McSweeney's Interviews.
		Lethem, you have long been a vocal critic of the FBI, and many critics have accused As She Crawled Across the Table of being a thinly-veiled attack on the bureau, and Janet Reno in particular.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /1999/09/17lethem.html (2945 words)

	Salon Books \| Who killed Brooklyn? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It may be more accurate to say that Lethem is a genre writer, and a versatile one at that: He has written a western, a noir, a Philip Dick-style dystopic fantasy and an academic satire -- in other words, novels that obey conventions different from those of literary realism.
		In Lethem's work, however, the futuristic setting functions like the words "once upon a time..." It prepares us to enter the realm of myth, without telling us which myth, in particular, to expect.
		Because "Motherless Brooklyn" is set in the present and recent past, and so is likely to end Lethem's cult status, now seems the time to set down some notes on the style of his early work, and the departure that "Motherless Brooklyn" represents.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/09/23/brooklyn (756 words)

	AWS OpenSearch on unto.net: Jonathan Lethem
		Lethem's dialogue is as light on its feet as a prize fighter.
		Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table.
		As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory.
	aws.unto.net /?searchTerms=Jonathan+Lethem&searchIndex=Books (1563 words)

	Amazon.ca: Motherless Brooklyn: Books: Jonathan Lethem,Steve Buscemi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Lethem has created a sympathetic, intriguing, and wonderfully whimsical alternative to the hard-boiled detective.
		Lethem is not afraid to take chances and his gamble paid off here.
		While I agree that the mystery itself is secondary to the character studies (and a drop disappointing), the resulting glimpses into the short-circuiting manners of a Tourettes' victim is a minor masterpiece in character study.
	www.amazon.ca /Motherless-Brooklyn-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/069452364X (1477 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Disappointment Artist: Books: Jonathan Lethem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Lethem is one of the greatest living American writers...
		The final piece is "The Beards", in which Lethem attempts to relate his pop-culture obsessiveness -- and if the collection makes nothing else clear, it's that when Lethem's fancy seizes on something, he becomes obsessive to the point of autism -- to his own work.
		Lethem gets the Richard Yates quality to Dick's non-SF work and points out the fact that Dick might have been prolific, but there's lots of mulch out there ('Vulcan's Hammer' is his example - a book I now want to read to see if it's as bad!).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Disappointment-Artist-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/0571227740 (970 words)

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