AltWeeklies Wire
Manhattan Goes Meta in Jonathan Lethem's 'Chronic City'new
Unlike Pynchon in The Crying of Lot 49, which this book at first resembles, Lethem keeps his readers (and his narrator) at too critical a distance, and explains far too much, and thus leaves me still waiting for that novel where Lethem finally knocks one all the way into the bleachers.
Willamette Week |
Matthew Korfhage |
10-21-2009 |
Fiction
(Borrowed From) Here, There and Everywherenew
Lethem's latest feels like a bit of literary tourism.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-29-2007 |
Fiction
Lethem is More Emo Than Younew
Especially coming after the arresting, atmospheric Motherless Brooklyn and the genuinely great coming-of-age story The Fortress of Solitude, Lethem's latest feels irksomely insubstantial -- but I can't write it off completely.
Dig Boston |
Stewart Mason |
03-28-2007 |
Fiction
