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OCT 26, 2009
Jonathan Lethem BOOKS / READING
Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem's best novels superimpose genre fiction onto what we might otherwise recognize as something like real life. In The Fortress of Solitude, a coming-of-age story passes through the panels of a superhero comic (and through the cocktail-party dilemma: flight or invisibility?); in As She Climbed Across the Table, a wry breakup story crawls into a sci-fi wormhole. Lethem's latest novel, Chronic City, sounds promisingly like more of the same: In an almost-real Manhattan, a former child star longs for a fiancée stranded in the international space station. Hosted by Stranger books editor Paul Constant. (Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave NW, 634-3400. 7 pm, $5/free with book purchase at University Book Store, 21+.) by Eric Grandy

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Um. Thinking this is not actually at the Sunset. But please reassure me if it is, I'll definitely be in attendance either way.
Posted by RL is too lazy to log in on October 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM · Report
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NM, clearly, it's at the Sunset. OK.
Posted by RL is too lazy to log in on October 26, 2009 at 1:56 PM · Report

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