Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette’s Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna....

Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist – a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer – to help....

The Arrest isn\"t post-apocalypse. It isn\"t a dystopia. It isn\"t a utopia. It\"s just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters - stops working... Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A....

Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned....

This volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. Then there are investigations of a shelf\'s worth of Jonathan Letham\'s literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others....

At the center of Jonathan Lethem\'s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women, who cast spells over the men in their lives....

A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional \"dystopianist\" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep....

Book Description Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock \'n\' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs....

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno\'s pr...

Pop quiz. Please complete the following sentence: \"There are days when I get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then I look up and I don\'t even recognize my own _.\" If you answered face, then your name is obviously not Jonathan Lethem....