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Jonathan Lethem, born in New York and educated at Bennington College, is known for novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn—the latter earning multiple literary honors. He has also published short story collections, a novella, and a collection of essays. In addition, he edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year’s Best Music Writing, and served as the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney’s, and other periodicals. Lethem currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Gun, with Occasional Music

Amnesia Moon

The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye

As She Climbed Across the Table

Girl in Landscape

Kafka Americana: Fiction

Kafka Americana: Fiction

Short story collection

Motherless Brooklyn

Ninety Percent of Everything

Ninety Percent of Everything

Short story collection

This Shape We're In

This Shape We're In

Short story

The Fortress of Solitude

Men and Cartoons

Men and Cartoons

Short story collection

How We Got Insipid

You Don't Love Me Yet

Chronic City

Dissident Gardens

Lucky Alan

The Blot

The Blot

Novella

A Gambler's Anatomy

The Feral Detective

The Arrest

Brooklyn Crime Novel

A Different Kind of Tension

Standalone Non-fiction

The Disappointment Artist: Essays

The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.

More Alive and Less Lonely

Shake It Up

The Collapsing Frontier

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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