Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books Authored

Image of Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel
Author(s):
Jonathan Lethem
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller, Crime Mystery & Thriller, Genre Fiction, Urban Life, Interracial/Multi-ethnic/Cultural Heritage

Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel

October 2, 2023
Reviewed by: 
Beth Kanell

“This book is a long read—skimming won’t cut it. But it’s long the way a walk through Brooklyn’s neighborhoods is long, and beautiful, and sometimes very clearly ‘other.’”

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Image of The Feral Detective: A Novel
Author(s):
Jonathan Lethem
Genre(s):
Suspense, Private Investigators, Literary Fiction

The Feral Detective: A Novel

November 6, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Beth Kanell

“one of the most unusual, unlikely, and un-put-downable PI novels ever.”

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Image of The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
Author(s):
Jonathan Lethem
Genre(s):
Essays, General, Literary, Essays, General, Literary, Essays, Literary, General

The Ecstasy of Influence

January 10, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Marc Schuster

“The Ecstasy of Influence is a book worth reading—it redraws the map of popular culture and, in so doing, pushes us beyond the confines of our comfortable minds, out into the larger world

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