Jonathan Lethem is a big fan of Raymond Chandler’s, so it’s not by chance that his new novel, The Feral Detective, begins where Chandler’s The Big Sleep leaves off, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, ...

"I idealize the transmission of intellectual property materials," Jonathan Lethem says (explaining why his novels read like mashups of cultural references, borrowings and outright plagiarisms). "Maybe ...

I met up with Jonathan Lethem last week to talk about the joys of living outside copyright laws, and the award-winning nerd novelist revealed that he'd love to be in a slash fiction story. Whom would ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author of “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Fortress of Solitude,” among ...

Though the novelist and Pomona College professor Jonathan Lethem has lived in Southern California for more than a dozen years, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Boerum Hill still looms large. It’s been ...

“I’ll drive,” Jonathan Lethem says, holding out his hand for my car keys. “This is going to be important, so you’ll want to take notes.” It’s a good thing he tells me that because nothing about the ...

An e-mail from a reader, David Quigg (who writes for Big Think and HuffPo), got me thinking today about the merits of author readings and literary events. Quigg recently blogged an event at a bar in ...

Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Motherless Brooklyn,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1999, is a noir tale of mobsters and P.I.s that slips its suit to become a startling ...

“I want to be in the audience,” Jonathan Lethem said into a microphone at Vroman’s Bookstore on Sunday afternoon. He slipped off stage and into a front row seat to watch musicians Cindy Lee Berryhill ...

Jonathan Lethem wants to debunk any rumors that he aspires to be a rock star. “Nobody’s lives would be improved by that,” says the Brooklyn-born-and-based author (Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of ...

As a teacher, Carmen Fariña used to let bestselling author Jonathan Lethem read to himself in a large cardboard box. R Umar Abbasi (left), Getty Images Carmen Fariña thinks inside the box. The city ...