Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called âas ambitious as [Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylanâ...
This volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando . Then there are investigations of a shelf's worth of Jonathan Letham's literary models and contemporaries-...
Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock ânâ roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast...
From the funked-up, messed-up Brookyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories comes the history of soul music, graffiti art,...
In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans.
In A New Life , Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.
Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless...