Motherless

The author, whose books "Motherless Brooklyn" and "Fortress Of Solitude" chronicle the quotidian life of Boerum Hill and Park Slope, recently told the LA Times that New York had become an impossible place to live and write.

Jonathan Lethem, LA Resident, Says Brooklyn Is 'Repulsive With Novelists' Jonah Green 2011

The author, whose books "Motherless Brooklyn" and "Fortress Of Solitude" chronicle the quotidian life of Boerum Hill and Park Slope, recently told the LA Times that New York had become an impossible place to live and write.

Jonathan Lethem, LA Resident, Says Brooklyn Is 'Repulsive With Novelists' Jonah Green 2011

I also relish books, such as Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn," that cleverly play with this genre.

A Q&A with David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z 2010

The author, whose books "Motherless Brooklyn" and "Fortress Of Solitude" chronicle the quotidian life of Boerum Hill and Park Slope, recently told the LA Times that New York had become an impossible place to live and write.

Jonathan Lethem, LA Resident, Says Brooklyn Is 'Repulsive With Novelists' Jonah Green 2011

If a person likes Fowler's Jane Austen Book Club or Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, they might be surprised to know that both authors started out as genre writers; get them to try out Sarah Canary and Gun with Occasional Music.

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Comparing this effort to, say, Motherless Brooklyn (1999) is like comparing apples to skyscrapers.

You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem: Book summary 2010

I also relish books, such as Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn," that cleverly play with this genre.

A Q&A with David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z 2010

First she quotes a passage from Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn:

Style in Fiction 2009

Hope Edelman, author of the well-regarded Motherless Daughters, lost her own mother when she was seventeen.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, for instance.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2 2010