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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Arrest, The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California.


When Art Talks Back: Jonathan Lethem on Graffiti As Visual and Written Expression

Exploring Artistic Scribbling in a Rapidly Gentrifying New York City
August 26, 2024  By Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

“He has done more, even, than Vonnegut in setting
his characters free.”
April 14, 2021  By Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem: Why Shirley Jackson is a Reader’s Writer

On the Brilliance of We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the Intimacy of Everyday Evil
February 24, 2021  By Jonathan Lethem
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