Neil, you are correct. Sorry, Hugh. The collection is THE
WALL OF THE SKY, THE WALL OF THE EYE, and is in print.
AMNESIA MOON also a novel. He's been a busy guy.
And my lack of enthusiasm for the cult of Dave Eggers has
kept me away from the McSweeney's publication so far, but
obviously I have some books to pick up. TM
-----Original Message----- From: a.n.smith [mailto:
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> AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE,
> I've seen none of his short fiction.
> > Has Lethem published a collection?
AS SHE CLIMBED... was a novel. I think the collection is
called AMNESIA MOON. He also edited a recent book of amnesia
stories, which I think is out on Vintage Crime, although I've
never seen a copy. He's an interesting case--started with sf
magazines, then just started deconstructing genres, from sf
to speculative to the campus comedy (AS SHE CLIMBED...) to
hardboiled to westerns (mixing and matching as he goes). But
he has recently decided to try placing things with more
literary magazines. McSweeney's published a novella of his in
hardback. It costs ten books, looks nice.
I still think the most impressive thing about MOTHERLESS
BROOKLYN is its dismantling of a typical detective's
hard-boiled language through the Tourette's Syndrome
narrator. Like that joke early on in the book that won't get
out of Lionel's brain, just keeps circling, mutating, growing
in different directions.
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