Is THE WALL OF THE SKY, THE WALL OF THE EYE considered HB?
Given Lethem's evolution, I guess it could be just about
anything, couldn't it?
As for Motherless Brooklyn, I found the language addictive.
After reading the first five pages, I wasn't sure I could
finish it. "This kid's annoying," I'm thinking. Then I began
to anticipate those machine-gun bursts of conversation, then
I began to look forward to it.
It is fun to see a genre turned on its head every once in a
while. I'm not sure I could read five books in a row like it.
Then again, it made me pick up GUNS . . .
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>From: Todd Mason <
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com>
>To: "'
rara-avis@icomm.ca'" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Lethem short fiction: Smith
corrects
>Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2001, 4:01 PM
>
> 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:
ansmith@netdoor.com]
>
>> 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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