Jonathan Lethem: 41 books

Before email, before the world wide web, before hackers, Before sexting, before always-on GPS, before titanium implants, before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri, before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon, there was cyberpunk. And science fiction...

Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected...

In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously...

20 stories, poems, and essays by bestselling writers paired with 20 pieces by aspiring writers 40+ pages of interviews, writing prompts, and tools for classroom use THE STORY I WANT TO TELL pairs the work of 20 aspiring young writers—including immigrants from war-ravaged countries—with original...

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. It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may...

“Don Carpenter’s semi-”autobiographical Fridays at Enrico’s can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation.” —The New York Times Book Review The author of A Hard Rain Falling and A Couple of Comedians, Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west....

From Jonathan Lethem’s classic collection, Men and Cartoons, a haunting, playful story about dress-up, superheroes, Mafia, love and treachery. “I first met the kid known as the Vision at second base, during a kickball game in the P.S. 29 gymnasium,” the narrator, Joel, explains. Decades...

A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt...

Die Welt nach dem Atomkrieg: Auf dem Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges entwirft Philip K. Dick in seinem 1965 entstandenen Roman das Bild einer zerstörten Gesellschaft, in der die Überlebenden darum kämpfen, Menschlichkeit und Normalität wiederzuerlangen. ›Nach der Bombe‹ bietet auch 50 Jahre...

Witzig und befreiend fordert "Bekenntnisse eines Tiefstaplers" konventionelles Wissen heraus und eröffnet tiefe Einblicke in die kaleidoskopische Natur der künstlerischen Praxis, die Rolle des Schriftsteller im Kulturbetrieb und die Art, wie eigene Lebenserfahrung die geistigen Obsessionen...

September 2006. Bob Dylan hatte gerade das Kapitel »Modern Times« aufgeschlagen. Schriftsteller Jonathan Lethem bekam die Möglichkeit, den Mann hinter dem Trugbild kennenzulernen. Die vier Aufzüge zeichnen ein authentisches Bild des Künstlers und Nobelpreisträgers. Er räumt mit Vorstellungen...

A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include...

In questa raccolta di racconti e saggi, Lethem rende omaggio a uno dei suoi ispiratori letterari, Philip K. Dick, il tormentato e geniale padre della fantascienza postmoderna. Tra gustosi racconti giovanili, curiosissimi ricordi personali, spunti critici seri e profondi, questo libro è un viaggio...

In De dissidenten vormen de stad New York en de twintigste eeuw het perfecte decor om een buitengewone familie op te voeren: de Zimmers. Rose Zimmer `De Rode Koningin van Sunnyside Queens is een ouderwetse communiste die met haar wispelturige persoonlijkheid en dwingende overtuigingen de buurt en...