Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (; lahia 19 Februari 1964) adolah surang pangarang Amerika Sarikat. Inyo tanamo antaro lain subagai pangarang novel populer Motherless Brooklyn (1994) jo The Fortress of Solitude (2003).

Kaidupan awal jo paribadi 
Lethem laia Brooklyn, New York. Ayahnyo, Richard Brown Lethem, adolah surang palukis avant-garde, sadang ibunyo Judith adolah surang aktivis politik. Inyo adolah anak nan paliang tuo dari tigo urang basanak sagaek.

Lethem ketek mandangakan musik Bob Dylan dan manonton film Star Wars sabanyak duo puluah satu kali kutiko film tu patamo kali kalua di bioskop. Inyo tatarik jo karya fiksi ilmiah Philip K. Dick.

Kaluarga Lethem tingga di sabuah commune di Gowanus, Brooklyn era sabalun gentrifikasi. Inyo basikolah di P.S. 29 di Cobble Hill, dima inyo basuo guru idolanyo Carmen Fariña. Urang gaeknyo bacarai kutiko Lethem masih ketek, dan kutiko inyo baumua tigo baleh, ibunyo Judith maningga dek tumor utak.

Lethem kudian masuak High School of Music & Art, sabuah sakolah manangah seni, untuak manjadi surang palukih cando ayahnyo, walaupun inyo surang manyabuik baso karya lukisannyo "kakanak-kanakan". Inyo mangarang zine banamo The Literary Exchange jo sabuah novel sapanjang 125 halaman nan bajudul Heroes, nan inggo kini alun ditabikkan. Salapeh lulus, inyo masuak Bennington College di Vermont pado tahun 1982. Lethem mamiliah untuak kalua kampus pado tahun kaduonyo. Inyo bajalan manumpang dari Denver, Colorado ka Berkeley, California, malalui gurun jo pagunuangan di Wyoming, Utah, jo Nevada.

Lethem tingga di California salamo duo baleh tahun. Inyo pernah bakarjo subagai klerk di toko buku bakeh Moe's jo Pegasus & Pendragon Books. Lethem mangarang di wakatu luangnyo. Inyo manabikkan carito pendek partamonyo pado tahun 1989. Pado tahun 1996, inyo pindah baliak ka Brooklyn dari San Francisco Bay Area. 

Pado tahun 1987, Lethem kawin jo pangarang Shelley Jackson Kaduonyo bacarai pado 1997. Pakawinan kaduonyo adolah pado tahun 2000 jo Julia Rosenberg, surang eksekutif film bakabansoan Kanada, namun anyo batahan salamo duo tahun. Sajak 2007, Lethem tingga di Brooklyn jo Berwick, Maine, basamo istri katigonyo, sutradara film Amy Barrett. Lethem punyo duo orang anak laki-laki, Everett jo Desmond.

Karya

Fiksi

Novel 
 Gun, with Occasional Music (1994)
 Amnesia Moon (1995)
 As She Climbed Across the Table (1997)
Girl in Landscape (1998)
Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
You Don't Love Me Yet (2007)
Chronic City (2009)
Dissident Gardens (2013)
A Gambler's Anatomy (2016)
The Feral Detective (2018)
The Arrest (2020)

Koleksi carito pendek jo novela 
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye (1996)
Kafka Americana (1999) (basamo Carter Scholz)
This Shape We're In (2000)
Men and Cartoons (2004)
How We Got Insipid (2006)
Lucky Alan and Other Stories (2015)

Komik 
Omega the Unknown (2007)

Carito pendek 
Super Goat Man (The New Yorker, 5 April 2004)
Áva's Apartment (The New Yorker, 25 Mei 2009)
Procedure in Plain Air (The New Yorker, 26 Oktober 2009)
The Gray Goose (The New Yorker, 6 Mei 2013)
The Starlet Apartments (The New Yorker, 4 Maret 2019)
The Afterlife (The New Yorker, 18 Mei 2020)

Non-fiksi

Buku 
The Vintage Book of Amnesia (editor, 2001)
Da Capo Best Music Writing: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country and More (editor, 2002)
The Disappointment Artist (2005)
The Subway Chronicles (kontributor, 2006)
Believeniks!: 2005: The Year We Wrote a Book About the Mets (2006, basamo Christopher Sorrentino sabagai "Ivan Felt and Harris Conklin")
Brooklyn Was Mine (kontributor, 2008)
They Live (2010)
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (2011)
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011, editor basamo Pamela Jackson)
Talking Heads' Fear Of Music (2012) (untuak seri 33⅓)
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (2018)

Esai jo jurnal 
Monstrous Acts and Little Murders (Salon.com, Januari 1997)
You Don't Know Dick (Bookforum, 2002)
The Beards (The New Yorker, 28 Februari 2005)
Being James Brown (Rolling Stone, Juni 2006)
The Genius of Bob Dylan (wawancara Rolling Stone, September 2006)
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harper's Magazine, Februari 2007)
Four Paintings by Raymond Pettibon: a New Collaboration (The Believer, Maret-April 2013)

Adaptasi layar kaco 
Light and the Sufferer (2009) – skenario nan ditulih Christopher Peditto badasakan carito pendek Lethem
The Epiphany (2011) – film pendek SJ Chiro badasakan carito pendek Lethem
Motherless Brooklyn (2019) – skenario nan ditulih Edward Norton

Rujuakan

Pautan lua 

2008 interview  by Betsy Sussler, Bomb Magazine 
 

Pangarang Amerika Sarikat