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
self manhattan brooklyn
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.
teacher children stress
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
hate voice sound
I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
reality skins heal
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
writing expectations want
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
hippie artist rights
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
book people facts
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
careers want lucky
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
quarantine taste boundaries
I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
teenage want adults
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
writing order paint
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
masters discomfort plans
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
writing mind body
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
father artist parent
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.