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
actual black hole novel third
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
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I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction-I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
names shut-up someday
Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
halloween kids sky
There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.
laptops cafes world
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
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.
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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.
authority certain my-own
I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.