I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, … - Jonathan Lethem

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Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

Jonathan Lethem

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they described the world I live in, with all of its subjectivity, irrationality, and paradox, were those which made free use of myths and symbols, fantastic occurences, florid metaphors, linguistic experiments, etcetera - to depict the experiences of relatively 'realistic' characters - on the level of their emotions and psychology, rather than in terms of what kinds of lives they led or what kind of events they experience.

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I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Boundaries, Genres, Quarantine, Taste, Tastes

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!

60S, Bicycle, Children, Growing Up, Hill, White

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

Artist, Heart, Miniature, Quit, Reading, Under

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

Book, Earth, Comic Book, Yes, Slowest

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Book, Charts, Image, Notes, Shapes