Jonathan Lethem is the author of eight novels, including Chronic City, You Don’t Love Me Yet, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, Men and Cartoons and The Wall of the Sky, Wall of the Eye, and a collection of autobiographical essays, The Disappointment Artist. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, McSweeney's, Tin House, The New York Times, and others. In 2005 he was granted a MacArthur Genius Award. He was recently appointed the Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College.

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