Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Gun, With Occasional Music, The Fortress of Solitude, and You Don’t Love Me Yet. Motherless Brooklyn, his fifth, won the National Book Critic’s Award, and has been translated into twenty languages. Lethem is also the author of two story collections, a novella and a book of essays, The Disappointment Artist. As editor, he created The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Years’s Best Music Writing 2001, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence Magazine. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta and a variety of other periodicals and anthologies. In 2005 he was awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.
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