Jonathan Lethem

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by Keith Taylor

posted 4/1/2007

Jonathan Lethem's cool. His novels and stories take on everything from detective fiction to comic book heroes. He is very willing to write about big themes — the possibilities or impossibilities of individualism in an era of irony and commodity, race in America, and so on — and he does it in prose that is lively, often very funny, and frequently

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