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Menschen und Superhelden by Jonathan Lethem, 2005 Die Festung der Einsamkeit by Jonathan Lethem, 2006-06-30 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, 1999-01-01 Als sie über den Tisch kletterte by Jonathan Lethem, Bookforum June/July/Aug/Sept 2006 (Volume 13, issue 2) THE FIRST NOVEL, The Poetry of Guantanomo Bay's Detainees, Greil Marcus on Philip Roth, Gary Indiana on Curzio Malaparte, Toni Bentley on Story of O, Justin Spring on Julia Child, Fantagraphics Thirteenth Anniversary by Francine Prose, Rebecca Goldstien, Patricia McGrath, Jim Crace, Francisco Goldman, Lynne Tillman, John Banville, Jonathan Lethem, Maureen Howard, Craig Seligman William H. Gassm Hilary Mantel, 2006-01-01 Writers on Writers (A Special Supplement to the Virginia Quarterly Review) by Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, et all 2005 As She Climed Across the Table Signed Edition by Jonathan Lethem, 1997 Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem, 2005-01-06 Fred Tomaselli: Monsters Of Paradise by Jonathan Lethem, Fred Tomaselli, 2005-01-15 Meeting Evil: A Novel by Thomas Berger, 2003-04-22 Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti by David "Chino" Villorente, Todd "Reas" James, 2007-10-01 Catherine Corman: Daylight Noir Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem, 2004 The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt, Low Company by Daniel Fuchs, 2006-10

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41. Books By Lethem, Lethem, Jonathan, Books By Lethem, Jonathan
    Like Motherless Brooklyn, by Lethem, Girl in Landscape, by Lethem, Fortress of Solitude, by Lethem, 3rd Edition, New Life, by Malamud  
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42. Chronic City Ebook, Chronic City E-book, Lethem-Jonathan, General Fiction Ebooks
    Chronic City by LethemJonathan - for your Sony Reader, PC, Mac, IPhone, Opus ereader, Blackberry or Cooler ereader in ePub, PDF, eReader, Mobipocket and Microsoft reader ebook  
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43. "Motherless Brooklyn" - Jonathan Lethem - Salon.com
    An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel A narrator with Tourette s syndrome.  
    http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/09/23/lethem/
    
    Extractions: Communities OAS_AD('Top'); Editor: Sarah Hepola Updated: Today Topic: Thursday, Sep 23, 1999 12:00 ET By Gary Krist A detective with Tourette's syndrome narrates a hard-boiled crime novel. Sounds like a gimmick, right? Another in the endless line of diversity dicks sleuths in wheelchairs, lesbian lieutenants, investigators who also happen to be heroin addicts or restaurant critics or codgers as old as Angela Lansbury. But Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, "Motherless Brooklyn," is no movie- of- the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul. Lethem, after all, walks the serious-fiction beat, and in his hands the compulsions of Tourette's become a kind of kaleidoscopic metaphor, ultimately (and somewhat paradoxically) reflecting the fundamental ethos of the mystery genre itself: the compulsion to restore order and rightness to a world thrown temporarily out of joint. The world of "Motherless Brooklyn" is, of course, the borough of the title, and what disrupts its sense of order is the stabbing death of a small-time neighborhood operator named Frank Minna. Lionel is Frank's factotum, one of four misfits from a local orphanage Frank has commandeered to work in his seedy and makeshift detective agency. Calling themselves Minna Men, the four have become vassals in Frank's scruffy little fiefdom, and like the members of any feudal hierarchy, each has found his particular niche: Tony is the implicit second-in-command, the lesser noble to Frank's lord of the manor; Danny is the enigmatic knight-errant, distant and of uncertain loyalty; Gilbert is the earthy, none too intelligent serf; and Lionel, nicknamed Freakshow because of his constant verbal tics and physical twitches, is the fool, the court jester, whose antics the others tolerate with the indulgence that forced proximity dictates.

44. Chegg.com: Motherless Brooklyn By | 0375724834 | 9780375724831
    Rent and Save a ton on Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem, Jonathan.ISBN 0375724834 EAN 9780375724831  
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    Extractions: mboxCreate('TT_Global_Mbox','pageName='+window.s.pageName, 'retCust=no', 'profile.retCust=no'); Sign In Rental Cart ( CHEGG.COM FIND YOUR BOOKS FIND BOOKS SEARCH TIPS x Search Tip: The best way to find your books is by searching using ISBNs. Alternatively, you can also search using book title or author's name. But better results are returned when you put in book title and one of the authors' name together. Here are some examples of good searches: Home Fiction General by ISBN: EDITION: BINDING: PUBLISHER: PAGES: BUY SUMMARY From America's most inventive novelist comes this virtuoso riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog, who has Tourette's Syndrome, and three other veterans from St. Vincent's Home for Boys work for a small-time mobster. When the mobster is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is turned topsy-turvy. A National Book Critics Circle Award Winner. SUMMARY From America's most inventive novelist comes this virtuoso riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog, who has Tourette's Syndrome, and three other veterans from St. Vincent's Home for Boys work for a small-time mobster. When the mobster is fatally stabbed, Lionel's world is turned topsy-turvy. A National Book Critics Circle Award Winner.

45. Bold Type: Jonathan Lethem
    Short plot synopsis of this 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee (and soon-to-be feature film starring Edward Norton).  
    http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem/
    
    Extractions: Lionel Essrog, former denizen of St. Vincent's Home for Boys in Brooklyn and Tourette's syndrome-afflicted detective, is a Minna Man. He, along with three fellow orphans, runs mysterious errands for wiseguy Frank Minna and his detective-agency-slash-car service. When a stakeout goes wrong and Frank gets knifed, Lionel goes looking for the killer. The plot takes wild twists and turns, marked by indelible characters and acrobatic wordplay. Essrog, with his lovable tics and compulsions, embarks on a journey that is as much an existential search as it is a manhunt. In Jonathan Lethem's deft hands, even Brooklyn itself becomes one of the main characters in this deliriously funny novel. Lethem is a literary risk-taker, in full command of his conflated and inventive art. Motherless Brooklyn turns the detective story on its head; it's an audacious homage to the hard-boiled crime novels of the '30s and '40s by way of Jorge Luis Borges, but like Lethem's past work, it defies easy categorization. It is both his most accessible and strongest work to date.

46. Bold Type: Reading By Jonathan Lethem
    Bold Type streaming audio clip of Lethem reading the opening passage of this extraordinary novel.  
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47. Bold Type: Excerpt By Jonathan Lethem
    Bold Type s print excerpt from the novel.  
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    Extractions: A true story, not a joke, though it was repeated as often, tugboatted relentlessly, was of the beat cop from Court Street who routinely dislodged clumps of teenagers clustered at night on stoops or in front of bars, and who, if met with excuses, would cut them off with: "Yeah, yeah. Tell your story walking". More than anything, this somehow encapsulated my sense of Minnahis impatience, his pleasure in compression, in ordinary things made more expressive, more hilarious or vivid by their conflation. He loved talk but despised explanations. An endearment was flat unless folded into an insult. An insult was better if it was also self-deprecation, and ideally should also serve as a slice of street philosophy, or as resumption of some dormant debate. And all talk was finer on the fly, out on the pavement, between beats of action: we learned to tell our story walking. Wheels within wheels was another of Minna's phrases, used exclusively to sneer at our notions of coincidence or conspiracy. If we Boys ever dabbled in astonishment at, say, his running into three girls he knew from high school in a row on Court Street, two of whom he'd dated behind each other's backs, he'd bug his eyes and intone: wheels within wheels.

48. Chegg.com: And Other Essays By | 1400076811 | 9781400076819
    Rent and Save a ton on And Other Essays by Lethem, Jonathan.ISBN 1400076811 EAN 9781400076819  
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    Extractions: mboxCreate('TT_Global_Mbox','pageName='+window.s.pageName, 'retCust=no', 'profile.retCust=no'); Sign In Rental Cart ( CHEGG.COM FIND YOUR BOOKS FIND BOOKS SEARCH TIPS x Search Tip: The best way to find your books is by searching using ISBNs. Alternatively, you can also search using book title or author's name. But better results are returned when you put in book title and one of the authors' name together. Here are some examples of good searches: Home Literary Collections Essays by ISBN: EDITION: BINDING: PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group (03/14/2006) PAGES: BUY SUMMARY From a confession of the sadness of a ""Star Wars" nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. SUMMARY From a confession of the sadness of a ""Star Wars" nerd" to an investigation into the legacy of a would-be literary titan, Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him.

49. Review | Motherless Brooklyn
    Frederick Zackel s review for January magazine.  
    http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/motherless.html
    
    Extractions: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Published by Doubleday 311 pages, 1999 Buy it online Of Mooks and Men Reviewed by Frederick Zackel Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn is great fun, a rousing private eye novel and a classic quest story, complete with a reluctant hero who must go face-to-face with "monks and crooks and mooks alike" to solve the murder of his mentor. Lionel Essrog is one of the more unlikely private detectives in crime fiction, except in the most post-modern sense. He's afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes him to shout out often scream out echolalic phrases that may be scandalous and often are obscene. ("'Stickmebailey!' I shouted.") Stress kindles Lionel's Tourette's. The pressure builds up to an unbearable level, then the dam bursts and a torrent of barbarous sounds thunder forth. Lionel also touches people compulsively and rearranges objects obsessively. To the world, he is at turns intolerable, incongruous and disruptive. Most often he is just a victim of his disorder, helpless in its grasp, having to live with its repercussions. Among its other distinctions, Tourette's means Lionel can never own a cat, because his behaviors "drive them insane." That Lionel became one of Minna's minions was both a fluke and a turning point in his existence. He was "crazy but also malleable, easily intimidated," and thus ripe for a new life. Frank Minna, whom Lionel says "adored my echolalia" because it unnerved his "clients and associates," became Lionel's mentor and introduced him to the outside world of Greater Brooklyn. But it's in an older Brooklyn where he found his identity and purpose, "a placid ageless surface alive with talk, with deals and casual insults, a neighborhood political machine with pizzeria and butchershop bosses and unwritten rules everywhere. All was talk except for what mattered most, which were unspoken rules." No one asks questions in this "motherless Brooklyn"; you might not like hearing the answers.

50. Jonathan Lethem - Jonathan Lethem - Salon.com
    Motherless Brooklyn New York writer Jonathan Lethem twists form and style to create unconventional books that manage to transcend the restraints of the genres in which  
    http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/lethem/index.html
    
    Extractions: Communities OAS_AD('Top'); Editor: Sarah Hepola Updated: Today Topic: Thursday, Oct 5, 2000 15:00 ET By Jonathan Lethem New York writer Jonathan Lethem twists form and style to create unconventional books that manage to transcend the restraints of the genres in which he plays. He is the author of numerous books including "Gun With Occassional Music," "Amnesia Moon," and "Girl in Landscape." Lethem is the recipient of the National Book Critic's Circle Award for his recent novel, "Motherless Brooklyn," a story whose main character is a Tourette's syndrome-afflicted detective. "Another terrific entertainment from Lethem, one of contemporary fiction's most inspired risk-takers. Don't miss this one." -Kirkus Reviews Listen to two excerpts from his award-winning novel "Motherless Brooklyn" (Doubleday). An MP3Lit.com exclusive recording.

51. Washingtonpost.com: Postmodern P.I.
    Review by Adam Mazmanian  
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/feed/a33165-1999nov7.htm
    
    Extractions: Sunday, November 7, 1999; Page X06 MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN By Jonathan Lethem Doubleday. 311 pp. $23.95 Reviewed by Adam Mazmanian As with a high-concept Hollywood blockbuster, the premise of Motherless Brooklyn is easily contorted into an alluring, one-sentence pitch: A private eye with Tourette's Syndrome solves the murder of his mentor. An infinite potential for comedy is contained within this improbable plotline. The private eye, as traditionally conceived, is a sharpie, a wisecracking, hard-drinking, aloof tough guy. Tourette's Syndrome is a neurological disorder expressed in physical and verbal tics ranging from facial twitches to uncontrollable flashes of profanity. The man in the trenchcoat, a cigarette dangling coolly from his lower lip, loses his credibility when he risks lurching into a fit of coprolalia at the drop of a well-blocked fedora. But Lionel Essrog, both detective and narrator, is not a risible character, even though he is often called "freakshow" and "crazyman." He's an orphan, raised in a Brooklyn orphanage, and educated by Frank Minna, a mysterious, mobbed-up South Brooklyn operator who runs the Minna Detective Agency (and, it seems to young Essrog, all of Court Street in Brooklyn). Minna, who took Essrog as an apprentice when he was 13, plays father, hero and role model to him and three fellow orphans Tony, a blustering Mafia wannabe; Danny, a lithesome, imperturbable hoopster; and Gilbert, who is doughy and unreflective.

52. Jonathan Lethem Biography From Who2.com
    Jonathan Lethem is a writer with highbrow literary credibility whose novels have drawn comparisons to the science fiction novels of Philip K. Dick and  
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    Extractions: @import url("/css/standard_delta.css"); Share on Facebook Jonathan Lethem is a writer with high-brow literary credibility whose novels have drawn comparisons to the science fiction novels of Philip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard . Lethem attended Vermont's Bennington College in the early 1980s, and was acquainted with Donna Tartt , Jill Eisenstadt and Bret Easton Ellis . But while they were writing novels, Lethem was studying painting and gradually working up to being a writer. He left Bennington in 1984 and spent the next decade working in bookstores and building a career as a story writer. His first novel was Gun, with Occasional Music (1994), a somewhat futuristic detective story some critics described as a mix of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler . He followed up with more speculative fiction in the novels Amnesia Moon As She Climbed Across the Table (1997) and Girl in Landscape (1998). His novel

53. Books: Madman, P.I. (Tucson Weekly . 10-11-99)
    Tucson Weekly. Review focusing on the protagonist s linguistic tics as an amplification of the freakshow that lies beneath the surface of our normal world.  
    http://weeklywire.com/ww/10-11-99/tw_book.html
    
    Extractions: By Jeff Yanc Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday). Cloth, $23.95. ALFRED HITCHCOCK COINED the term "McGuffin" to describe the genre-driven plot elements he used to distract viewers from the deeper, often more insidious, ideologies running rampant in his twisted visions. For example, the Nazis-hiding-uranium-in-wine-bottles plot of Notorious was merely a front for Hitch's exploration of the sadomasochistic nature of heterosexual union, glamorously enacted by Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Author Jonathan Lethem has obviously perfected the transference of the McGuffin to the world of contemporary literature, as he proves in his new fictional work, Motherless Brooklyn Over the course of several novels, Lethem has become one of our most fascinating young revisionist writers, capable of a seemingly effortless, genre-splicing alchemy. Never tackling the same literary genre twice, Lethem thrills because he cannot be classified. Whether fusing quantum physics with modern romance and Lewis Carroll (in As She Climbed Across the Table ), or melding a female coming of age story with John Ford's classic Western film

54. Lethem, Jonathan. As She Climbed Across The Table. - Free Online Library
    Free Online Library Lethem, Jonathan. As she climbed across the table.(Brief article, Audiobook review) by Kliatt ; Business Publishing industry Library and information  
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55. 'Motherless Brooklyn' Wins Book Critics Circle Prize
    New York Times. Includes brief plot outline and list of winners in other categories. Site requires free registration.  
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/031400book-price.html
    
    Extractions: March 14, 2000 Related Links Albert Mobilio Reviews Jonathan Lethem's 'Motherless Brooklyn' (Oct. 17, 1999) First Chapter: 'Motherless Brooklyn' Richard Bernstein Reviews Jonathan Weiner's 'Time, Love, Memory' (April 18, 1999) By JULIAN E. BARNES otherless Brooklyn," a novel about a detective whose Tourette's syndrome turns his sentences into rhymed barrages of free association, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for best fiction yesterday. The book, by Jonathan Lethem of Brooklyn, follows Lionel Essrog as he tries to solve the murder of his boss and mentor. Mr. Essrog's illness causes him to compulsively tap everything within reach six slaps of the dashboard or six touches on the shoulder and makes every conversation a pun-filled call-and-response. "Alfred Hitchcock" becomes "Altered Houseclock" and "friend of the deceased" is rendered "mend the retreats." Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Albert Mobilio said that Mr. Essrog's tics evoke James Joyce and that Mr. Lethem's novel "immerses us in the mind's dense thicket, a place where words split and twine in an ever-deepening tangle." The general nonfiction award went to "Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior" by Jonathan Weiner. The book chronicles the career of Seymour Benzer, one of the founders of molecular biology, and his work to find the genes that control aging, mating and memory in fruit flies. "Mr. Weiner has a poetic and philosophical turn of mind," Richard Bernstein wrote in a review in The Times, "and he manages to see the almost spiritual implications of the search for the deepest truths about the nature of life."

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57. What Makes Him Tic?
    New York Times review by Albert Mobilio.  
    http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/reviews/991017.17mobilot.html

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59. Lethem, Jonathan. Girl In Landscape. - Free Online Library
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    Extractions: 18,341,296 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... Kliatt artId=176904571;usrSelf=false; LETHEM, Jonathan. Girl in landscape. Read by David Aaron Baker Aaron Baker (b.1620 - d.1683) was an English agent of the British East India Company holding Presidency positions in Bantam and Madras in the 1640s and 1650s. Baker made a fortune in the East Indian trade. . 6 cds. 6.5 hrs. Books on Tape. 2007. 978-1-4159-4167-6. $40.00. Vinyl; plot notes. SA To make extremely dry, especially by exposure to heat: The midsummer sun parched the earth. wasteland of crumbled and crumbling structures but also a large, mostly unexplored playground for Pella, her two brothers, and the children of the few other families who have migrated there. Two alien types also inhabit the planet. The Archbuilders are double-jointed creatures who are viewed with disinterest dis·in·ter·est

60. Jonathan Lethem: As She Climbed Across The Table
    by Steven H Silver.  
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    Extractions: AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE by Jonathan Lethem Doubleday 212pp/$22.95/March 1997 Cover by David J. High Reviewed by Steven H Silver After reading his third novel, about the only thing which can be said with any certainty about Jonathan Lethem is that he is still trying to find a voice uniquely his own. This is not necessarily a bad thing. His novels are all very well written and interesting. However, each novel blatantly demonstrates its authorial influences, whether its the Raymond Chandler detective noir school of Gun, With Occasional Music or the Samuel Beckett Waiting-for-Godot -esque As She Climbed Across the Table . The current novel also bears a strong flavor of the absurdity found in Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass , driven home by the protagonist's girlfriend's name: Alice. All the while, Lethem manages a certain Dickian atmosphere. As She Climbed Across the Table is set on the campus of North California University, Beauchamp . Philip Engstrand is a sociologist specializing in the disciplinary and interdisciplinary conflicts which occur at universities. Prior to the beginning of the novel, his research brought him into contact with nuclear particle physicist Alice Coombs, with whom he now shares living quarters. As She Climbed Across the Table is a well-written satire on, among other things, university politics and academia. Characters borrow each others phrases and assign meanings to areas outside their expertise, all the while trying to identify, and therefore own, the experiences or objects. However, Lethem's satire is more subtle in

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