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1 month ago | 
yalereview.org | Jonathan Lethem
Can treasure also be heavily used? The most functional piece of art I took for granted the longest was our ashtray, which provided routine and filthy service. It is made of pewter and depicts the biblical story Jonah and the Whale.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Jonathan Lethem
To start, I’ll put aside Palestine. In 2013, among a group of friends in an online forum, contemplating the souring hopes of the late Obama years and wondering what might come after—that is to say, with Trump/Sanders populism still beyond credible prediction—Lucy Sante wrote to us:On wealth and its distribution, however, which is the issue that matters to me more than all others combined, we are currently in the 33rd year of the Reagan administration.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Jonathan Lethem
Anyone want to join? There are still seats, I hear.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
razorcake.org | Jonathan Lethem |Ian Svenonius |Brad Warner |Collapsing Frontier
Sep 19, 2024PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series is one of the most unique and fun things going on in the publishing world currently. The concept is straightforward: find interesting, thought-provoking, boundary-pushing writers from across the literary and political landscape, and publish their shortform work in a pocket-sized edition.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
medium.com | Jonathan Lethem
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Jonathan Lethem
From the September 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. We met in a barn. That is the first thing to say.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
memoirland.substack.com | Jonathan Lethem |Annie Ernaux |Nancy Lemann
Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Becoming Becks” by .
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Jonathan Lethem
In Lucy Ives’s new novel, Life is Everywhere, she writes: “Everyone who has ever lived was born into something that was already taking place.”Article continues after advertisementAs children in New York City in the 1970s, we were born into a world covered with paint. Walls, baseboards, moldings, even radiators might be six or seven layers deep with it, architectural edges and corner blurred into globs, approximate shapes.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thenation.com | David Klion |Vivian Gornick |Elias Rodriques |Jonathan Lethem
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. As concerned as he is with describing the conditions that produced these demagogues, Ganz is equally deft in characterizing their individual personalities.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Rachel Clarke |Rebecca Nagle |Jonathan Lethem |Alice Driver
Edited by Alison Fensterstock. HarperOne, $40 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-327033-6Fensterstock, a contributor to NPR’s Turning the Tables, a “multiplatform series” that celebrates the women who shaped American popular music, draws from it and more than 50 years of the station’s coverage in a rich and resonant collection of essays, interview excerpts, and ephemera.
