Sigh ... When is Jonathan Lethem going to take another shot at writing crime fiction? He already proved, with his 1999 Gold Dagger-winning novel, Motherless Brooklyn, that he can turn the conventions of this genre to his advantage. Yet he tells Laura Miller of Critical Mass that he’s just completed work on “a short and deliberately foolish novel called You Don’t Love Me Yet, set in Los Angeles in the (approximately) early nineties, about discombobulated twenty-somethings in Echo Park who form a band and then accidentally steal the lyrics to their only good song.” Fine. OK. Get that out of your system, Jonathan, along with your planned project to revive the Marvel Comics character Omega the Unknown. But then, how ’bout another yarn about crooks and crazies?
Your fans are out here waiting ...
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
don't forget "gun, with occasional music"
Post a Comment