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Books by Jonathan Lethem mentioned on podcasts
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Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem is a critically acclaimed detective novel featuring Lionel Essrog, a private investigator with Tourette's syndrome who attempts to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Recommended“there are a number of books I gifted a lot motherless Brooklyn which is basically a detective Noir story that was also turned into a movie by Edward Norton”
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Gun, with occasional music
Discussed“that's leading very naturally into a book that you wrote your first novel gun with occasional music in which the drug was forgett all you should know the pronunciation”
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The Arrest
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem is a dystopian novel that follows a former television writer struggling to survive in a post-collapse rural Maine community after a mysterious technological catastrophe cripples modern civilization.
Recommended“and then one other book is the funeral detective by Jonathan Lethem who was probably my favorite author of the last decade or so”
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The Fortress of Solitude
The Fortress of Solitude is a 2003 novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows the lives of two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Brooklyn during the late twentieth century, blending elements of urban realism with magical realism and comic book mythology.
Recommended“the novel is Jonathan Liam's novel The Fortress of Solitude from 2003 it tells the story of two friends”
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The Peanuts Papers
Discussed“it is called the peanuts papers writers and cartoonists on Charlie Brown Snoopy and the Gang and the meaning of life”
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