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Tuesday, September 29 at 8:15pm - THE THING #7 - NYC Event
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Jonathan Lethem Lethem will be in Toronto tomorrow - Wednesday the 25th - at 7:30.
Source: www.openbooktoronto.com
This award-winning author will read from his new novel, Chronic City (Knopf Doubleday Publishing) and will take part in an onstage interview with Jared Bland.
Jonathan Lethem “Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters — too secret. I return again and again to his stories for writerly inspiration, moral support and comic relief at moments of personal misery, and, several times, in a spirit of outright plagiaristic necessity: borrowing a jumpstart from a few lines of Dixon has been a real problem-solver in my own short fiction. Please read him, you.” -JL
Source: www.comicbookresources.com
A 900-page collection of previously uncollected short fiction by two-time National Book Award Nominee (1991, 1995) Stephen Dixon. The collection will be published in May, 2010.
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Ah, an extra inning has been added between #7 and the finale. A treat? A cheat? Bold? Pathetic? Call it a brunch.
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Location:Jonathan will continue his marathon reading at our post-Thanksgiving brunch
Time:12:30PM Sunday, November 29th
Jonathan Lethem O ye of little faith! Stay tuned.
Source: www.brooklynpaper.com
At last Tuesday’s seventh round in the “Lethem vs. ‘Chronic City’” Marathon at Spoonbill and Sugartown in Williamsburg, the author admitted that he was only halfway through the doorstopper of a novel.
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"Whether it's chaldron hunters or the super rich on the Upper East Side, each are in their own way attempting to create a kind of sustainable microcosm inside the chaos of everything. The contradictory, impossible hugeness of reality. Sometimes I see it in a kind of tragic light, but I think it's how most people do liv...e at some level or another. They make a tolerable miniature world for themselves."Read More
Source: www.thestar.com
Jonathan Lethem Tonight - Saturday, November 21 - Lethem will be in Manchester, VT for a reading and signing. Also, stay tuned for some interesting developments on the New York Marathon front, which is approaching its wild conclusion.
Source: www.northshire.com
Manchester Center, Vermont. Quality and breadth of new & used books. Known for Vermont books & products, children's books, gifts, music & collectible vinyl.
Jonathan Lethem Gnuppet on a stick. Nice outtakes at the end.
Jonathan Lethem Lethem's newest published fiction takes the form of an item description on e-bay. Only one day remains to bid on this significant object.
Source: cgi.ebay.com
See, very few know it, because we keep it to ourselves, but Missouri is sick and silly with apprentice fictioneers, the whole state’s like one vast harrowed and furrowed MFA workshop. Why do you think the license plates call it The Show-Don’t-Tell State?
Source: www.nypress.com
Monday night, on the second floor of the powerHouse Arena, Jonathan Lethem was spinning records for the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” a showcase of young novelists.
Jonathan Lethem What do Lethem, Arianna Huffington, Bill O'Reilly, John Stewart, Elmo, and Julie Andrews have in common? They all think CHRONIC CITY makes a great holiday gift. More or less.
Jonathan Lethem "...a key conversation in it comes almost directly from an essay by Robin Hanson called 'How to Live in A Simulation'."
Source: www.jgoodwin.net
It’s still early, certainly, but none of the reviews I’ve read of this seem to understand its premise.
Jonathan Lethem The British cover of Chronic City has been added to "The Jacket Museum," which is a great place to wander around.
Jonathan Lethem "As a reader I always liked character names I could remember. I tend to forget the majority of them. So when I would read Dickens or Pynchon they would stick, and I liked that. I wanted to reciprocate that gesture. I think it's a way of imparting an air of legend and myth to characters who have one foot in reality and one foot in some kind of larger-than-life cartoon."
Source: www.miamiherald.com
Lethem talks about quite a few Chronic City character names and their references in this review/interview. Just skip down a few paragraphs.
