The Guardian

Jonathan Lethem: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a dark writer, but this is utterly different’

The American novelist on writing horror, how Occupy gave capitalism back its name and the thunderbolt that has hit US politics The Blot, Jonathan Lethem’s noirish new novel, centres on Alexander Bruno ...
Cleveland.com

Jonathan Lethem, Myla Goldberg and Colson Whitehead speak of cartoons, criticism and their upcoming work

Whitehead, who like Lethem is the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, said his forthcoming novel, "Sag Harbor," took three and a half years to write, and is now more real to him than the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Lieutenant’ producers reload Lethem’s ‘Gun’

Gabe and Alan Polsky, who recently produced "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," have optioned the film rights to Jonathan Lethem's cult novel, "Gun, With Occasional Music." By Jay A. Fernandez ...
Time

A Beloved Author Turns the Trump Era Into a Rowdy Detective Story

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The New Yorker

Lethem and the Bartender

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 ...
The Daily Beast

Jonathan Lethem on the Power of Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’

In “The Beards,” an essay collected in 2005’s The Disappointment Artist, Jonathan Lethem wrote that “each of my novels ... is fueled by loss.” His mother died in 1978, when he was 14. “I find myself ...
Los Angeles Times

Why did Jonathan Lethem turn toward the desert in ‘The Feral Detective’?

“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 ...
New York Post

Fariña would let author Jonathan Lethem read in cardboard box

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 See more of our coverage in your search results.
The New Yorker

Lethem Goes to Inland Empire

Pomona college is reporting that Jonathan Lethem has been selected from a pool of seventy-five applicants as the Roy Edward Disney Professor in Creative Writing. The position, which was held by David ...
The New York Times

Inside Jonathan Lethem’s Oddball Trove

Mr. Lethem, whose books include “The Fortress of Solitude,” has sold his papers, artifacts, even drawings of vomiting cats, to Yale. Items in Jonathan Lethem’s archive.Credit...David Brandon Geeting ...
The New York Times

Creating a Pantheon of Beloved Underdogs

Jonathan Lethem’s fat, hip and garrulous new essay collection, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” is self-consciously in the tradition of books like Norman Mailer’s “Advertisements for Myself” and John ...