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All paths lead nowhere choose one with heart...

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
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I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
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