Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

by Lethem, Jonathan

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Title Statements

Full title :Conversations with Jonathan Lethem / edited by Jaime Clarke.

Summary

"Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, conducted over a decade and a half, with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels as Girl in Landscape, Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, and many others. Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award, Lethem (b. 1964) covers a wide range of subjects, from what it means to incorporate genre into literature, to the impact of the death of his mother on his life and work, to his being a permanent "sophomore on leave" from Bennington College, as well as his flight from Brooklyn to California and its lasting effect on his fiction. Lethem also reveals the many literary and pop culture influences that have informed his writing life. Readers will find Lethem as charming and generous and intelligent as his work. His examination of what it means to live a creative life will reverberate and enlighten scholars and fans alike. His thoughts on science fiction, intellectual property, literary realism, genre, movies, and rock 'n' roll are articulated with elán throughout the collection, as are his comments on his own development as a craftsman."--Project Muse.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiii, 191 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781604739633, 1604739630, 9781604739640, 1604739649, 9781604739725, 160473972X
oclc:ocn678537297
LC Classification:PS3562.E8544
Dewey Decimal:813/.54

Introduction -- Chronology -- Private hells and radical doubts: an interview with Jonathan Lethem / Fiona Kelleghan, 1997 -- An interview with Jonathan Lethem / Michael Silverblatt, 1999 -- "Involuntary deconstructionism": paradoxa interview with Jonathan Lethem / Shelley Jackson, 2001 -- The art of fiction no. 177: Jonathan Lethem / Lorin Stein, 2003 -- An interview with Jonathan Lethem / Michael Silverblatt, 2003 -- Interview with Jonathan Lethem / Sarah Anne Johnson, 2005 -- A conversation with Jonathan Lethem / James Schiff, 2005 -- Birnbaum v. Jonathan Lethem / Robert Birnbaum, 2005 -- Seattlest interview: Jonathan Lethem / Courtney W. Nash, 2007 -- An interview with Jonathan Lethem / Michael Silverblatt, 2007 -- Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Millet / Lydia Millet, 2008 -- "If dean street could talk": Jonathan Lethem / Brian Berger, 2009 -- The Rumpus long interview with Jonathan Lethem / Ronnie Scott, 2010 -- An interview with Jonathan Lethem / Michael Silverblatt, 2010.