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• Backscratching in Our Time — Jonathan Lethem and Laura Miller

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 122
  The latest in a series of occasional posts on authors who praise each other’s books. Jonathan Lethem on Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book : “Conversational, embracing, and casually erudite, Laura Miller’s superb long essay is the kind that comes along too rarely, a foray into the garden of one book ...
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• Installation/text/light artists

  
  R+D — Authority: 117
  Recently I stumbled upon a trove of online installation art. Many of the works were curious and conceptually-leaning. It was quite a surprise to find so many works that appealed to my sensibilities and interests in contemporary art. This started a few days ago, when a photo of my installation, Dark into Light , was ...
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• The Chuck Klosterman Interview Part 2: 30 Rock, Mad Men, The Office, Arrested Development, and Why Movies and TV Have Made Us Less Human

  
  /Film — Authority: 782
  In his new book of essays, Eating the Dinosaur , pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman posits that “as a species we have never been less human than we are right now.” Part of the reason why this has happened, he says, is that our growing consumption of media, movies, and entertainment has made it so that “we ...
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• The Way We Ate: Helen Buckler

  
  Diner's Journal — Authority: 668
  The Brooklyn woman who named Boerum Hill moonlighted in the 1930s as a food writer for The New York Times, with a penchant for history and a baroque prose style.
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• Readers’ Bloc 2009, ethnographic edition

  
  JessicarulestheUniverse — Authority: 501
  Reader: Butch Perez, ethnographic filmmakerButch’s Top 10+“Some novels that entertained me, some new, some old, in no particular order. There were others.”1. Heartbreak Soup and Human Diastrophism, both by Gilbert Hernandez. “Amazing characters living in a Mexican town called Palomar. Magic realism really ...
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• Behold, Jonathan Lethems Playlist for Chronic City

  
  Sound of the City — Authority: 614
  In which Cat Power is compared to Thomas Pynchon, and Bob Dylans "Ill Keep It With Mine" echoes in the "abandoned gothic cathedral" of Nicos voice. Courtesy of the Washington City Paper....
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• The Playlist: Jonathan Lethem

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  Jonathan Lethem ’s Chronic City is one of the best books of the year. So sayeth me; so sayeth the sage critterpoos at the New York Times , who include Lethem’s eighth novel in their holiday gift guide . (Speaking of guides, check out ours! ) While a good friend of mine alleges that Chronic City , which is ...
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• Sunday Read: The New York Times‘ Ten Best (US) Books of 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 480
  Read reviews and excerpts/author interviews for each of the NYT’s top ten titles from the USA in 2009: After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only. The sublime story collections alone created agonies of indecision. So did the superb ...
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• Gun With Occasional Music Getting Adapted

  
  Shockya.com — Authority: 538
  Gabe and Alan Polsky have garnered the rights to adapt author Jonathan Lethem’s 1994 cult noir novel “Gun, With Occasional Music” for the big screen.The two recently produced “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”.The sci-fi oriented “Gun” follows a private eye through a futuristic Oakland and ...
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• Big Screen GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC

  
  Rama's Screen — Authority: 155
  Real quick now, gotta make some time for book based projects, that and the story’s got a Kangaroo that works for the mob, I kid you not, either I’m easily amused or that is by far one of the coolest characters ever created. According to Hollywood Reporter , The producers of Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New ...
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• Bad Lieutenant Producers Draw Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music

  
  /Film — Authority: 782
  In addition to their many literary charms, the novels of Jonathan Lethem have an unusual superpower: they resist cinematic adaptations with great vigor. Ironic, given the heavy cinematic awareness and influences on his novels. Lethem’s latest, Chronic City , even opens with a scene in the offices of the Criterion ...
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• Bow Before the Comcast-NBC Universal Megalith [Trade Roundup]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Actually save it for when the deal actually goes through. But that time has moved closer now that Comcast announced a $30 billion deal to take over NBC Universal from GE. The next big question: Are regulators going to flip? If the deal goes through, Comcast-NBC Universal will be an entertainment squid with ...
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• New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2009

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 619
  Publishing assistants all across Manhattan were kept from their dinners so they could hit the refresh button, but the New York Times Book Review s 10 Best Books of 2009 list finally did go live this afternoon/evening. No big surprises there for anyone whos been reading the Book Review all year, and no real sleepers ...
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• Jonathan Lethem’s marathon finale

  
  Cobble Hill Blog — Authority: 472
  Photo from BK11201. In October, Jonathan Lethem kicked off his book tour for Chronic City at BookCourt, and he will return on Friday for his last stop on the tour - and to complete his mission to read all 480 pages at his various appearances. If you ever wanted to know where Lethem does his writing, check out ...
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• Links: Leftovers

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 560
  What foreigners might read to better understand the “ American character .” An author gives up on writing criticism: “I know intimately that the worst novels ever written took more fearlessness, will and soul than the best book reviews ever written.” To buy the time work on a play or another book, Richard ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chronic City Brunch with Jonathan Lethem at Word in Greenpoint, NY, Sunday, November 29

  
  Serge the Concierge — Authority: 137
  Jonathan Lethem has been reading parts of his latest book on the Chronic City Tour and decided to add one stop to it. He will visit the Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, New York on Sunday, November 29. Heres the program in Words words: "Join us on the Sunday after Thanksgiving for a relaxed brunch event. ...
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• Cormac McCarthy’s Issues of Life and Death, Hans Fallada’s Complex Resistance, and Jonathan Lethem’s Bloodless Prose

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 416
  In a 1992 interview with The New York Times , Cormac McCarthy famously said that he only cares for writers who  “deal with issues of life and death.” He disses Proust and Henry James, saying “I don’t understand them . . . that’s not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider ...
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• Leftovers Friday

  
  Cobble Hill Blog — Authority: 472
  Here’s to hoping everyone had a fun and food-filled Thanksgiving, and is having a leftover turkey/stuffing/cranberry sauce sandwich filled Friday. A few bits about what’s going on in the nabe: The Post reports that Lucali has been given the go-ahead to keep a mobster on its payroll, Jonathan Lethem has added ...
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• "Who Walk in Brooklyn" writes to Luc Sante (and he answers!)

  
  Found in Brooklyn — Authority: 414
  A fan of Luc Sante? Like old postcards? Then you will *DIG* the interview done by frequent F.I.B photo contributer, Brian Berger. And GET this! The interview was actually done via post written by HAND on old postcards. Brian not only talks old postcards with Mr. Sante but asks him compelling questions such as, "Who ...
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• Jonathan Lethem he aint

  
  morgenstern — Authority: 558
  I’m reading Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude and loving it, but not flat out all...
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