I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

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• Jonathan Lethem:

  What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not r

• Jonathan Lethem:

  It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to writ

• Jonathan Lethem:

  The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's

• Jonathan Lethem:

  I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, b

• Jonathan Lethem:

  Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

• Jonathan Lethem:

  I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape

• Jonathan Lethem:

  It was good while it was good.

• Jonathan Lethem:

  I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

• Jonathan Lethem:

  Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to

• Jonathan Lethem:

  I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak bit