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• Atwood, Lethem, Robinson

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  I’m part of the year-end Independent Weekly “What Our Writers Are Reading” feature this week, with capsule reviews of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood , Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City , and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Galileo’s Dream. Here’s the takeaway ‘graph from the Robinson review: ...
  4 days ago

• How Philip K. Dick Predicted The Future

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 557
  Author Jonathan Lethem is also the man who edited Philip K. Dick’s anthologies for the Library of America. In this new interview, Lethem notes that Philip K. Dick correctly predicted our future . “I think that Dick saw the makings of the contemporary reality we experience so profoundly. And this speaks to the ...
  6 days ago

• Erik Davis Interviews Jonathan Lethem about Philip Dick

  
  Total Dick-Head — Authority: 109
  Theres a must-read interview of Lethem up over at h+ magazine conducted by none 0ther than TDH friend Erik Davis ! Its a meaty interview, knife and fork kind of stuff. Heres a taste: ED: Dick set many of his tales in what we might now call a “posthuman” future of cognitive-enhancing drugs, psi powers, and ...
  6 days ago

• Book World: Jonathan Lethem reviews Joan Schenkars Talented Miss Highsmith

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 952
  THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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• Fastcase Holiday Reading List

  
  Fastcase - Accelerated Legal Research — Authority: 115
  Whether you are a library card-carrying book-worm or dedicated techie itching to try out the Kindle , iphone , Nook, iRex , or Sony Reader that Santa left under your tree, the holidays are a great time to relax, refresh, and curl up in front of the fireplace with a few good books. To help you get into the ...
  1 week ago

• Catching Up on Coffee: Helsar de Zarcero

  
  Palafo — Authority: 91
  I was too busy for blogging these many weeks, but I was drinking coffee, and so my record here will have a gap. There was a roast from Verve that was quite tasty but is no longer available, and I made it through a couple of rough weeks with the delicious Peet’s Holiday Blend , which my wife carried back from Los ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Desrey Fox home raided by Guyana customs during funeral – two illegal vehicles seized

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 142
  as the lady was being burned to the stake customs agents under the direction of khurshid sattur raided desrey fox home. they subsequently seized two vehicles that have bogus registration information from the home. no word on when the police are going to seize the son who was driving at the time of her death. as ...
  1 week ago

• Installation/text/light artists

  
  R+D — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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: 793
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Way We Ate: Helen Buckler

  
  Diner's Journal — Authority: 641
  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.
  2 weeks ago

• Readers’ Bloc 2009, ethnographic edition

  
  JessicarulestheUniverse — Authority: 506
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Behold, Jonathan Lethems Playlist for Chronic City

  
  Sound of the City — Authority: 626
  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....
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sunday Read: The New York Times‘ Ten Best (US) Books of 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gun With Occasional Music Getting Adapted

  
  Shockya.com — Authority: 523
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bad Lieutenant Producers Draw Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music

  
  /Film — Authority: 793
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jonathan Lethems CHRONIC CITY, surreal and beautiful sf explores the authentic and the unreal

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 866
  Jonathan Lethems extraordinary new novel Chronic City tells the story of Chase Insteadman, a washed up, grown up child actor living off his sitcom residuals in wealthy, Upper East Side New York. Chase is caught between two improbabilities: his fiancee, a dying astronaut stranded on a space-station walled off from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bow Before the Comcast-NBC Universal Megalith [Trade Roundup]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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