Jonathan Lethem
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Oh, that poor little dweeb, Jonathan Lethem.
It’s just hard to write about music — you know the feeling, I’m sure ... It’s much harder for me than writing about a book or a film…. They’re much more accessible to my normal set of tools — a narrative, characters, dialog and scenes.
Fear of Music took me at an age when I had very few defensesMore quotes »
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Jonathan Lethem on Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’
Ebet Roberts/Redferns, via Getty Images Talking Heads in 1978. Hold on tight. “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around.” Jonathan Lethem’s monograph on Talking Heads’ “Fear of Music” isn’t your everyday, step-by-step, track 10:23 AM from The New York Times Read more »
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10 Great Science Fiction Books for People Who Don’t Read Sci-Fi
This week, The New Yorker published their first ever science fiction issue, filled with speculative stories from popular authors, many not necessarily known for their sci-fi writing: Junot Díaz, Jennifer Egan, Sam Lipsyte, Jonathan Lethem. In truth, we’r from Flavorwire Read more »
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Jonathan Lethem: “My Internet”
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Jonathan Lethem’s “My Internet” was originally published in the June 4 & 11, 2012 issue of The New Yorker. Click for a larger im from The Mookse and the Gripes Read more »
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This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem
You published your first novel, “Gun, with Occasional Music,” in 1994, a year after the Web browser Mosaic was publicly released, transforming the way people traversed the Internet and contributing to its rapid expansion. Can you remember when you first from The New Yorker Read more »
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Jonathan Lethem braves Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
FEAR OF FICTION Lethem says that Fear of Music “describes a tone of [an] intimate, neurotic — but seductive — paranoid personality that I think I probably quite shamelessly hoped that some of my earliest fiction would sound like.” In every single rock do from The Phoenix Read more »
