Jonathan Lethem, author portrait

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among other publications.
Motherless Brooklyn; The Fortress of Solitude
A Gambler's Anatomy
Dissident Gardens
The Ecstasy of Influence
Chronic City
You Don't Love Me Yet
The Disappointment Artist
Men and Cartoons
The Fortress of Solitude
Motherless Brooklyn
Girl in Landscape
As She Climbed Across the Table

Books

Motherless Brooklyn; The Fortress of Solitude
A Gambler's Anatomy
Dissident Gardens
The Ecstasy of Influence
Chronic City
You Don't Love Me Yet
The Disappointment Artist
Men and Cartoons
The Fortress of Solitude
Motherless Brooklyn
Girl in Landscape
As She Climbed Across the Table

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