A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on the subject of writers and writing, from Melville’s Moby-Dick to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest A rea
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and not-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—from western films and comic books, to the music o
The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine brilliant stories that prove he is a master of the short form as well as the novel. Jonathan Lethem stretches new literary muscles in this scintill
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postapocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered su
The bestselling and beloved author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude delivers a searing love letter to the city that has inspired his finest work. Chase Insteadman, former child tele
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor i
What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture sup-posed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls th
A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and MailA dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about