My old friend wrote one of the great white whales that got away.
Official website of novelist Jonathan Lethem
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My old friend wrote one of the great white whales that got away.
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We’re both in the habit of writing short books about single films. We’ll talk about this in Los Angeles at Skylight.
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I remember Bowman.
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I decided to survey all the fictional drugs invented by people other than myself and Philip K. Dick.
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Here I go again, nailing it all down for you! This was a fun conversation, part of a great visit to Portland.
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One might quibble with the rankings, but first bow down to the emoji work.
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Do you?
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Some songs that have to do with the Feral Detective, at least in my mind.
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I want to read this.
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It’s getting Wilde.
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They’re showing it in Houston, the evening before I read at Inprint. I’ll be there.
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I wrote about the rock band called The dB’s for the new North Carolina edition of the Oxford American Southern Music Issue.
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Local institutions Pomona College and the Daily Bulletin are proud of me. I’m grateful.
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At the AWP Conference in Portland March 27-30, 2019, I’ll be on a panel called “Teaching Unteachable Books”
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Lethem avatar Harris Conklin recollects going to Shea Stadium with a young Donald Trump in this new book by David Shields.
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I reworked Allen Ginsburg’s “Howl” using language from Charlie Brown and Snoopy and friends for the upcoming anthology The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life.
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In Jerry Schatzberg’s new book of Dylan photographs, the text consists of a series of written exchanges between me and Schatzberg.
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I’m one of the counselors at Lit Camp, at Esalen this year.
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I wrote a (short) introduction to help reintroduce Roslyn Drexler’s BAD GUY