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- Author: Jonathan Lethem ISFDB Author Record # 904
- Legal Name: Lethem, Jonathan Allen
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Birthdate: 19 February 1964
- Language: English
- Webpages: IMDB, jonathanlethem.com, SFE3, Wikipedia-EN
- Biography: Bio:Jonathan Lethem
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Jonathan Lethem
- Author Tags: Philip K. Dick (3), kafkaesque (3), post-apocalyptic (1), noir (1), science fiction (1)
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Novels
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Gun, with Occasional Music (1994)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Knarre mit Begleitmusik [German] (1998)
- Variant Title: Der kurze Schlaf [German] (2003)
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Amnesia Moon (1995)
also appeared as:
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Variant Title: Amerikai amnézia
[Hungarian] (2008)
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Variant Title: Amerikai amnézia
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As She Climbed Across the Table (1997)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Als sie über den Tisch kletterte [German] (2002)
- Girl in Landscape (1998)
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Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Motherless Brooklyn: erzähl Deine Geschichte im Gehen [German] (2001)
- Variant Title: Les orphelins de Brooklyn [French] (2003)
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The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Die Festung der Einsamkeit [German] (2004)
- Variant Title: La Fortaleza de La Soledad [Spanish] (2005)
- Variant Title: Forteresse de solitude [French] (2006)
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Chronic City (2009)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Chronic city [French] (2011)
- Variant Title: Chronic City [German] (2011)
- The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye (1996)
- Kafka Americana (1999) with Carter Scholz
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Men and Cartoons (2004)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Menschen und Superhelden [German] (2005)
- How We Got Insipid (2006)
- Ninety Percent of Everything (2011) with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
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Lucky Alan and Other Stories (2015)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Lucky Alan & Other Stories (2015)
- The Vintage Book of Amnesia (2000)
- This Shape We're In (2001)
- Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More (2002) with Paul Bresnick
- The Disappointment Artist (2005)
- Conversations with Jonathan Lethem (2011) with Jaime Clarke
- The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (2011)
- A Wish (1989)
- The Cave Beneath the Falls (1989)
- A Mirror for Heaven (1990)
- My Neighbor Bob (1990)
- Noodling (1990)
- The Buff (1990)
- Using It and Losing It (1990)
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Walking the Moons (1990)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Il giro delle lune [Italian] (1993)
- The Happy Man (1991)
- Ad Man (1992)
- Program's Progress (1992)
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The Speckless Cathedral (1992)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Die fleckenlose Kathedrale [German] (1996)
- The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa (1992) with Lukas Jaeger
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Vanilla Dunk (1992)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Vanilla Dunk [Italian] (2002)
- His Oral History (1993)
- The Happy Prince (1993)
- A Small Patch On My Contract (1993)
- Hugh Merrow (1993)
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"Forever," Said the Duck (1993)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Forever, Said the Duck (1993)
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The Precocious Objects (1993)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Die frühreifen Objekte [German] (1994)
- Mood Bender (1994)
- Willing It Over the Wall, or The Nine Billion Names of Babe Ruth (1994)
- Receding Horizon (1995) with Carter Scholz
- Light and the Sufferer (1995)
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The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom: (Hommage à Heinlein) (1995)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom: (Hommage Heinlein) (1995)
- Variant Title: La profession insipide de Jonathan Hornebom [French] (2002)
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The True History of the End of the World (1995)
with
John Kessel
and
James Patrick Kelly
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: La vera storia della fine del mondo [Italian] (1996)
- Holidays (1996)
- Martyr and Pesty (1996)
- Sleepy People (1996)
- The Hardened Criminals (1996)
- How We Got In Town and Out Again (1996)
- Five Fucks (1996)
- The Edge of the Bed of Forever (1997) with Angus MacDonald
- Access Fantasy (1998)
- The Spray (1998)
- The Darcy Bee (1998) with Elizabeth Hand and John Clute and Kathleen Ann Goonan and Kim Newman
- K for Fake (1999)
- The Notebooks of Bob K. (1999)
- Ninety Percent of Everything (1999) with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
- This Shape We're In (2001)
- The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door (2002)
- View from a Headlock (excerpt from The Fortress of Solitude) (2003)
- The National Anthem (2004)
- Super Goat Man (2004)
- Vivian Relf (2004)
- Planet Big Zero (2004)
- The Glasses (2004)
- The Vision (2004)
- Interview with the Crab (2005)
- Lucky Alan (2007)
- The King of Sentences (2007)
-
Lostronaut (2008)
only appeared as:
- Variant Title: Katasztronauta [Hungarian] (2009)
- Procedure in Plain Air (2009)
- Inventory (2009)
- My Internet (2012)
- Pending Vegan (2015)
- The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear (2015)
- The Empty Room (2015)
- The Porn Critic (2015)
- Their Back Pages (2015)
- Traveler Home (2015)
- The Unexpurgated Zap Gun: A Report (1987)
- Letter (PKDS Newsletter 24) (1990)
- Two Dickian Novels (1990)
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Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction (1998)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Why Can't We All Just Live Together?: A Vision of Genre Paradise Lost (1998)
- Mistakes Were Made: An Exchange (1998) with Ray Davis
- Introduction (Mockingbird) (1999)
- Genre and Genesis: A Discussion of Science Fiction's Literary Role (2000) with Bill Warren and David G. Hartwell and George Zebrowski and Gordon Van Gelder [only as by Bill Warren and David Hartwell and George Zebrowski and Gordon Van Gelder and Jonathan Lethem ]
- An Incomplete Annotated Bibliography of Amnesia Fiction (2000)
- Contributors (The Vintage Book of Amnesia) (2000)
- Introduction (The Vintage Book of Amnesia) (2000)
- Introduction (The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare) (2001)
- Introduction (Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick) (2002)
- Introduction (Meeting Evil) (2003)
- Nachwort (Nach der Bombe) [German] (2004)
- Foreword (The Man Who Lost the Sea) (2005)
- How I Got Insipid: An Afterword (2006)
- Introduction (The Deadly Percheron) (2006)
- Introduction (We Have Always Lived in the Castle) (2006)
- Nachwort (Abenteuer einer künstlichen Frau) [German] (2006)
- Chronology (Four Novels of the 1960s) (2007)
- Names (2007)
- Note on the Texts (Four Novels of the 1960s) (2007)
- Notes (Four Novels of the 1960s) (2007)
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Vorwort (In Boston?) [German] (2007)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Nachwort (In Boston?) (2007)
- On James Patrick Kelly (2009)
- Chronology (VALIS and Later Novels) (2009) [only as by uncredited ]
- Note on the Texts (VALIS and Later Novels) (2009) [only as by uncredited ]
- Notes (VALIS and Later Novels) (2009) [only as by uncredited ]
- Crazy Friend (Part 1) (2010)
- Crazy Friend (Part 2) (2010)
- Crazy Friend (Part 3) (2010)
- Crazy Friend (Part 4) (2010)
- Receding Horizon (introduction) (2011)
- Editors' Note (The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick) (2011) with Pamela Jackson
- Introduction (The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick) (2011) with Pamela Jackson
- Discovering the Unique Voice of J3(P)K2+L (2011) with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
- Introduction (Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley) (2012) with Alex Abramovich
- Nachwort (Ein kleines Trostpflaster für uns Temponauten) [German] (2016)
- Cosmogony and Cosmology (1988) by Philip K. Dick
- Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (1988) by Patricia S. Warrick
- Science Fiction Eye, August 1987 (1988) by Stephen P. Brown and Daniel J. Steffan
- The Secret Ascension (1988) by Michael Bishop
- The Dark-Haired Girl (1989) by Philip K. Dick
- Elvissey (1993) by Jack Womack
- Virtual Light (1993) by William Gibson
- The Unholy City (1998) by Charles G. Finney
- Jonathan Lethem: Dabbler in Tribes (2009) with Jonathan Lethem
- Jonathan Lethem: Breeding Hybrids in the Genre Garden (1997) by uncredited
- The Talebones Interview: Jonathan Lethem (1999) by Ken Rand
- Jonathan Lethem Interviewed (2004) by Iain Emsley
- Jonathan Lethem: Dabbler in Tribes (2009) by Jonathan Lethem
- Author Spotlight: Jonathan Lethem (2011) by Wendy N. Wagner
Non-Genre Titles
Novels
- You Don't Love Me Yet (2007)