I met up with Jonathan Lethem last week to talk about the joys of living outside copyright laws, and the award-winning nerd novelist revealed that he'd love to be in a slash fiction story. Whom would ...

Gabe and Alan Polsky, who recently produced "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," have optioned the film rights to Jonathan Lethem's cult novel, "Gun, With Occasional Music." By Jay A. Fernandez ...

"I idealize the transmission of intellectual property materials," Jonathan Lethem says (explaining why his novels read like mashups of cultural references, borrowings and outright plagiarisms). "Maybe ...

As a teacher, Carmen Fariña used to let bestselling author Jonathan Lethem read to himself in a large cardboard box. R Umar Abbasi (left), Getty Images Carmen Fariña thinks inside the box. The city ...

Jonathan Lethem's 2005 collection of essays is titled “The Disappointment Artist,” a description that also fits Rose Zimmer, the central character in Lethem's remarkable new novel “Dissident Gardens.” ...

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And then, shortly after publishing that novel, Lethem left Brooklyn for California, where he now holds the same Pomona College professorship that was once occupied by David Foster Wallace. Spurning ...

“I’ll drive,” Jonathan Lethem says, holding out his hand for my car keys. “This is going to be important, so you’ll want to take notes.” It’s a good thing he tells me that because nothing about the ...

“I want to be in the audience,” Jonathan Lethem said into a microphone at Vroman’s Bookstore on Sunday afternoon. He slipped off stage and into a front row seat to watch musicians Cindy Lee Berryhill ...

An e-mail from a reader, David Quigg (who writes for Big Think and HuffPo), got me thinking today about the merits of author readings and literary events. Quigg recently blogged an event at a bar in ...