Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethemis 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. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 February 1964
CountryUnited States of America
black-and-white giants watches
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
nerd fans needy
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
icons dating deployment
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.
lenses world forests
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.
percentages
There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
elevators mets
I met someone who lives in an elevator.
pawns
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
sky tree pages
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
character duration furniture
However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.
writing discipline fields
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
character mean writing
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.
authority certain my-own
I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
skulls bears silent
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
neat-and-tidy japan america
I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.