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
life-is
Life is fundamentally up for grabs
historical care really-great
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
dark light sea
In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.
brain answers world
Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.
moving artist world
Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.
growing-up cities missing
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
way bluffs destination
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
emotional stories kind
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
loneliness resentment companion
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
beautiful friday night
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone
exactly-is anxiety modernism
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
character way littles
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
surface
You can't be deep without a surface
certain made persons
As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.