Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of 13 novels, including BROOKLYN CRIME NOVEL, THE FERAL DETECTIVE and MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include MEN AND CARTOONS and LUCKY ALAN, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Los Angeles and Maine.

Books by Jonathan Lethem

Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem - Fiction

The Fortress of Solitude

by Jonathan Lethem - Fiction

Motherless Brooklyn

by Jonathan Lethem - Fiction, Literary Fiction

Like some sort of Mendelian hybrid, Lethem's MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN is a cross between a classic detective story, a satire of that same story, and a literary exegesis on the infinite complexities of language.