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Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Jonathan Lethem

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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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Slowest
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Earth

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I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.
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The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.
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I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
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I want what we all want, said Carl. To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
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Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
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I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.
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It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
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I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.
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