Jonathan Lethem
Author of Motherless Brooklyn
About the Author
Jonathan Lethem was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 19, 1964. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music was published in 1994. His other works include As She Climbed across the Table (1997), Amnesia Moon (1995), The Fortress of Solitude (2003), You Don't Love Me Yet (2007), Chronic City show more (2009), and Dissident Gardens (2013). He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Motherless Brooklyn (1999). He also writes short stories, comics and essays. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney's and other periodicals and anthologies. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Author Jonathan Lethem at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44687865
Series
Works by Jonathan Lethem
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributor — 215 copies
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication (2017) 63 copies
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More (2002) 53 copies
The Happy Man 6 copies
Walking the Moons [short fiction] 6 copies
Vanilla Dunk 6 copies
Lostronaut 5 copies
Five Fucks (short story) 4 copies
Omega the Unknown #1 3 copies
Super Goat Man [short story] 3 copies
Light and the Sufferer [novelette] 2 copies
Vivian Relf 2 copies
Hardened Criminals [novelette] 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #3 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #2 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #5 2 copies
The Empty Room 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #4 2 copies
Mood Bender {short story} 2 copies
Glasses 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #6 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #7 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #8 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #9 2 copies
Omega the Unknown #10 2 copies
Gun with Occassional Music 1 copy
The Afterlife 1 copy
De Minnamannen 1 copy
Tu Ainda Não Gostas de Mim 1 copy
Procedure in Plain Air 1 copy
Access Fantasy {short story} 1 copy
Using It and Losing It 1 copy
The Gray Goose 1 copy
Sleepy People [novelette] 1 copy
The Porn Critic 1 copy
Pending Vegan 1 copy
The Cave Beneath The Falls 1 copy
Associated Works
Four Novels of the 1960s : The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of… (2007) — Editor — 1,072 copies
Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the… (2008) — Editor — 512 copies
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Introduction — 218 copies
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 164 copies
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (2015) — Contributor — 134 copies
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributor — 132 copies
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Stories for Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2005) — Contributor — 98 copies
Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Hidden Classics (New York Review Books Classics) (2003) — Contributor — 95 copies
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) — Contributor — 92 copies
Nebula Awards 32: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1998) — Contributor — 89 copies
Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution (1995) — Contributor — 76 copies
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Translator/Contributor — 61 copies
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributor — 56 copies
Unusual Suspects: A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard (1996) — Contributor — 39 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1993, Vol. 85, No. 4 & 5 (1993) — Author — 16 copies
Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979-1983 (2011) — Foreword — 14 copies
The Wood Duck [short story] — Narrator, some editions — 3 copies
Millemondi Inverno 1996 — Contributor — 2 copies
Crank! Science Fiction • Fantasy, Winter 1996 (No. 6) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Lethem, Jonathan Allen
- Birthdate
- 1964-02-19
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Berkeley, California, USA
Berwick, Maine, USA - Education
- High School of Music and Art, New York
Bennington College (Art) - Occupations
- bookstore clerk
professor
novelist
essayist
short story writer - Relationships
- Jackson, Shelley (wife|divorced)
Lethem, Mara Faye (sister) - Organizations
- Pomona College
- Awards and honors
- MacArthur Fellowship (2005)
- Short biography
- Author pronounced his surname "LEE-thum" on the audio book edition of You Don't Love Me Yet
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Statistics
- Works
- 102
- Also by
- 105
- Members
- 22,323
- Popularity
- #952
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 581
- ISBNs
- 371
- Languages
- 17
- Favorited
- 95
- Touchstones
- 546
There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.
The setting, meantime, works on a parallel track: a future dystopia, unclear how far in the future, unstated but presumably our own United States. Like the Chandler epigraph, Lethem does well not to say too much about it, nor about his world except in dribs and drabs. This layer of textual commentary rides shotgun while the shamus goes about his rounds, sketching out the generic reality the detective lives in, and later, the one it evolves into. The sci-fi alternative reality starts out amusingly different from our own, takes a turn, and ends up feeling uncomfortably familiar.
It's a quick read, the barest suggestion of an alien landscape, and all in all, worth keeping in my library for another couple decades.… (more)