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Review: You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
The Los Angeles of Jonathan Lethem's You Don't Love Me Yet is not a place that Patrick Ness recognisesYou Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem 224pp, Faber, £10.99"Los Angeles", Steve Martin once...
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Jonathan Lethem on the nature of pop
Is pop music a trick, a revenge against the banality of daily life? Novelist Jonathan Lethem writes about his dance moves, his record collection and his obsession with the Fifth BeatleWhen I dance...
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Authors explain their key words
The Villa Gillet has been asking writers who attend the International Forum on the Novel to select a word which underpins their work. Jonathan Lethem, Adam Thirlwell, Nuruddin Farah and James Meek...
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Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem | Book review
Patrick Ness searches through the smoke of a genial narrativeLet us consider for a moment the deleterious effect of marijuana on the arts. George Michael, to take a random example, used to be one of...
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Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City | Interview
Cult writer Jonathan Lethem has called the Brooklyn he grew up in 'a geographical form of insanity'. He takes Gaby Wood on a tour of the neighbourhood he has put on the literary map and explains why...
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What writers risk in not repeating themselves
Jonathan Lethem's output is impressively diverse, but it's not going to win him a dedicated readershipThe biographical details printed on the back flap of his sprawling, ambitious new novel, Chronic...
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Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem | Book review
Wonderful prose and hilarious set pieces make up for an odd lack of plot in the cult writer's latest novelMany of Jonathan Lethem's novels have looked like experiments in creating striking generic...
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Jonathan Lethem talks about not talking about 9/11, tangling with the quote police, getting high on information and the memorial to David Foster Wallace buried in his latest novel, Chronic CityRichard...
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The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno | Book review
Alfred Hickling reads a suburban saga of loneliness and squidJonathan Caspar is a self-absorbed, unkempt, middle-aged palaeontologist who has spent his whole life feeling under the weather. Since...
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David Cronenberg to direct Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table
Cronenberg returns to The Fly territory with strange tale of a man who loses his love to a shapeless voidIn recent years, he's successfully moved into more mainstream, if indubitably classy, fare but...
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The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem –review
Jonathan Lethem's essays reveal surprising influences on his fictionThis is a book that turns the reader into Mortimer Snerd, the ventriloquist's puppet who supposedly first uttered the immortal phrase...
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Jonathan Lethem: 'I'd written three novels and several dozen short stories...
New Yorker Jonathan Lethem on his late introduction to non-fiction, defending plagiarism and the joys of Dr SeussNew Yorker Jonathan Lethem, 48, found success with the novels Motherless Brooklynand The...
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Jonathan Lethem on being a self-conscious writer
'For my living I climb into and then punch my way out of the paper bag of my solipsism on a daily basis'T, he voice addressing you now, dear reader, is a fiction. Even speaking as "Jonathan Lethem",...
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Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem – review
Jonathan Lethem's exploration of Talking Heads' extraordinary third album is stylish and illuminating"At the peak, in 1980 or 1981, my identification was so complete that I might have wished to wear...
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Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites
From a meditation on walking Britain's ancient paths to an epic American novel, from reportage on life in a Mumbai slum to a blockbuster biography of LBJ ... writers choose their books of the...
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The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review
The great literary critic James Wood turns his stern gaze on the likes of Paul Auster, Richard Yates and WG Sebald in a fascinating collection of essaysIf literary criticism no longer enjoys the...
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Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City | Interview
Cult writer Jonathan Lethem has called the Brooklyn he grew up in 'a geographical form of insanity'. He takes Gaby Wood on a tour of the neighbourhood he has put on the literary map and explains why...
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What writers risk in not repeating themselves
Jonathan Lethem's output is impressively diverse, but it's not going to win him a dedicated readershipThe biographical details printed on the back flap of his sprawling, ambitious new novel, Chronic...
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Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem | Book review
Wonderful prose and hilarious set pieces make up for an odd lack of plot in the cult writer's latest novelMany of Jonathan Lethem's novels have looked like experiments in creating striking generic...
View ArticleVideo: Jonathan Lethem on Chronic City
Jonathan Lethem talks about not talking about 9/11, tangling with the quote police, getting high on information and the memorial to David Foster Wallace buried in his latest novel, Chronic CityRichard...
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