The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “Jonathan Lethem”

Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe
Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe

What a woman with a fish necklace has to do with Blade Runner and the “terrible law of the universe.”

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The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual
The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual

A self-conscious reflection on literary self-consciousness, or what David Foster Wallace’s true gift really was.

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