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Jonathan Lethem

Lethem, Jonathan Allen

February 19, 1964 (age 62)

Birth place: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

118 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
January 1989 24 Short Fiction The Cave Beneath the Falls Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1989
March 1989 51 Short Fiction A Wish Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, Spring 1989
1990 215 Short Fiction My Neighbor Bob Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990
1990 58 Short Fiction Noodling Journal Wired, Spring 1990
1990 152 Short Fiction Using It and Losing It Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990
July 1990 30 Short Fiction A Mirror for Heaven Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Summer 1990
September 1990 121 Short Fiction The Buff Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, Summer 1990
November 1990 18 Short Fiction Walking the Moons New Pathways, November 1990
February 1991 136 Short Fiction The Happy Man Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1991
September 1991 17 Essay Read This (NYRSF, September 1991) The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1991
March 1992 15 Short Fiction Ad Man Science Fiction Review, March 1992
March 1992 57 Short Fiction The Speckless Cathedral Interzone, March 1992
September 1992 84 Short Fiction Vanilla Dunk Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1992
1993 44 Short Fiction His Oral History Crank! #1, Fall 1993
1993 8 Short Fiction The Happy Prince Crank! #2, Winter 1993
February 1993 5 Review Elvissey The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1993
May 1993 36 Short Fiction A Small Patch on My Contract Interzone, May 1993
October 1993 101 Short Fiction Hugh Merrow The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1993
November 1993 18 Review Virtual Light The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1993
December 1993 48 Short Fiction "Forever," Said the Duck Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1993
December 1993 82 Short Fiction The Precocious Objects Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1993
1994 55 Short Fiction Mood Bender Crank! #3, Spring 1994
1994 75 Short Fiction Willing It Over the Wall, or the Nine Billion Names of Babe Ruth Crank! #4, Autumn 1994
March 1994 11 Review Gun, with Occasional Music The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 1994
March 1994 12 Review Gun, With Occasional Music Science Fiction Age, March 1994
March 1994 4 Essay Read This (NYRSF, March 1994) The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 1994
April 1994 47|47.01 Review Gun, With Occasional Music Science Fiction Chronicle, #172 April & May 1994
May 1994 53 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Locus, #400 May 1994
May 1994 54 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Locus, #400 May 1994
September 1994 159 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1994
December 1994 169 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1994
1995 11|11.4 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Nova Express, Spring/Summer 1995
1995 41 Short Fiction Receding Horizon Crank! #5, Summer 1995
March 1995 112 Short Fiction Light and the Sufferer Century, Number 1, March-April 1995
April 1995 60 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction, April-May 1995
May 1995 57 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Interzone, May 1995
July 1995 51 Review Amnesia Moon Locus, #414 July 1995
July 1995 23 Review Amnesia Moon Locus, #414 July 1995
July 1995 17 Review Gun, With Occasional Music Vector 183
October 1995 56|56.2 Review Amnesia Moon Interzone, October 1995
October 1995 144 Short Fiction The True History of the End of the World The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1995
November 1995 18 Review Amnesia Moon Science Fiction Age, November 1995
1996 53|53.1 Review Amnesia Moon Valkyrie, Issue 10
1996 74 Short Fiction Holidays Crank! #6, Winter 1996
January 1996 6 Review Amnesia Moon The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1996
February 1996 162 Review Amnesia Moon Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1996
February 1996 40 Review Amnesia Moon The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1996
February 1996 51 Review Gun, With Occasional Music Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1996
March 1996 154 Review Amnesia Moon Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1996
June 1996 151 Review Amnesia Moon Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1996
July 1996 23 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Locus, #426 July 1996
September 1996 12 Short Fiction How We Got in Town and Out Again Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1996
November 1996 13 Review Amnesia Moon The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1996
November 1996 60 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Locus, #430 November 1996
November 1996 13 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1996
December 1996 59 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Locus, #431 December 1996
1997 Review As She Climbed Across the Table Nova Express, Summer 1997
1997 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Absolute Magnitude, Spring 1997
1997 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Nova Express, Summer 1997
April 1997 |6 Review Gun, with Occasional Music First Impressions, Installment Twenty-Eight
August 1997 21 Review As She Climbed Across the Table The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1997
August 1997 32 Short Fiction The Edge of the Bed of Forever The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1997
September 1997 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye SF Site, September 1997
October 1997 Review As She Climbed Across the Table SF Site, October 1997
October 1997 6 Interview Jonathan Lethem: Breeding Hybrids in the Genre Garden Locus, #441 October 1997
1998 Review Girl in Landscape Nova Express, Fall-Winter 1998
February 1998 Short Fiction The Darcy Bee Omni Online, February 1998
April 1998 Review Girl in Landscape SF Site, April 1998
May 1998 149 Review As She Climbed Across the Table Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998
May 1998 Review Girl in Landscape Science Fiction Weekly, 4 May 1998
July 1998 25 Review Girl in Landscape Locus, #450 July 1998
July 1998 33 Review Girl in Landscape Locus, #450 July 1998
September 1998 15 Review Amnesia Moon The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1998
September 1998 9 Review As She Climbed Across the Table The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1998
September 1998 14 Review Girl in Landscape The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1998
September 1998 1 Essay Why Can't We All Just Live Together? A Vision of Genre Paradise Lost The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1998
October 1998 242 Essay Curiosities: The Unholy City by Charles Finney (1937) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1998
October 1998 242 Review The Unholy City The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1998
December 1998 139 Review Girl in Landscape Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1998
December 1998 45 Review Girl in Landscape Aboriginal Science Fiction, Winter 1998
December 1998 5 Essay Mistakes Were Made: An Exchange The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1998
May 1999 52 Interview The Talebones Interview: Jonathan Lethem Talebones #15, Spring 1999
May 1999 |2 Review The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye First Impressions, Installment Forty-Eight
September 1999 37 Short Fiction Ninety Percent of Everything The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1999
July 2000 135 Review Motherless Brooklyn Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2000
November 2001 33 Short Fiction Martyr and Pesty Cemetery Dance, #36
February 2002 135 Review This Shape We're In Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2002
February 2003 135 Review Kafka Americana Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2003
July 2003 Short Fiction View from a Headlock (excerpt from The Fortress of Solitude) The New Yorker, July 28, 2003
2004 22 Interview Jonathan Lethem Interviewed The Third Alternative, Summer 2004
April 2004 Short Fiction Super Goat Man The New Yorker, April 5, 2004
May 2005 56 Review Men and Cartoons Interzone, May-June 2005
July 2005 65 Review The Disappointment Artist Interzone, July-August 2005
September 2006 Review The Vintage Book of Amnesia Strange Horizons, 4 September 2006
March 2007 98 Short Fiction Lucky Alan The New Yorker, March 19, 2007
June 2007 36 Review Gun, with Occasional Music Yog's Notebook, Summer 2007
September 2007 34 Review You Don't Love Me Yet The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007
December 2007 86 Short Fiction The King of Sentences The New Yorker, December 17, 2007
November 2008 Short Fiction Lostronaut The New Yorker, November 17, 2008
January 2009 Review Lostronaut StarShipSofa, No 60
February 2009 6 Interview Jonathan Lethem: Dabbler in Tribes Locus, #577 February 2009
June 2009 15 Essay On James Patrick Kelly Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2009
July 2009 Review Motherless Brooklyn Esquire, July 2009
October 2009 17 Review Chronic City Locus, #585 October 2009
October 2009 Short Fiction Procedure in Plain Air The New Yorker, October 26, 2009
2010 44 Review Chronic City Vector 264 Autumn 2010
February 2010 Essay Crazy Friend (Part 1) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #9 February 2010
March 2010 Essay Crazy Friend (Part 2) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #10 March 2010
April 2010 Essay Crazy Friend (Part 3) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #11 April 2010
May 2010 Essay Crazy Friend (Part 4) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #12 May 2010
September 2011 Interview Author Spotlight: Jonathan Lethem Fantasy Magazine, September 2011
2012 335 Poem Secret Identity Unstuck, #2
June 2012 78 Short Fiction My Internet The New Yorker, June 4 & 11, 2012
March 2015 22|22.2 Review Lucky Alan and Other Stories Locus, #650 March 2015
January 2017 |4.1 Review A Gambler's Anatomy Strange Horizons, 23 January 2017
November 2020 10|10.1 Review The Arrest The New York Times Book Review, November 22, 2020
November 2020 80|80.2 Review The Arrest Interzone, November-December 2020
October 2022 Short Fiction Narrowing Valley The New Yorker, October 31, 2022

27 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1994 Novel Gun, with Occasional Music Jonathan Lethem
1995 Novel Amnesia Moon Jonathan Lethem
1996 Collection The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Jonathan Lethem
1997 Novel As She Climbed Across the Table Jonathan Lethem
1998 Novel Girl in Landscape Jonathan Lethem
1999 Collection Kafka Americana Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz
1999 Novel Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem
2000 Anthology The Vintage Book of Amnesia Jonathan Lethem
2001 Chapbook This Shape We're In Jonathan Lethem
2002 Nonfiction Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More Jonathan Lethem & Paul Bresnick
2003 Novel The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem
2004 Collection Men and Cartoons Jonathan Lethem
2005 Nonfiction The Disappointment Artist Jonathan Lethem
2006 Collection How We Got Insipid Jonathan Lethem
2007 Novel You Don't Love Me Yet Jonathan Lethem
2009 Novel Chronic City Jonathan Lethem
2011 Nonfiction Conversations with Jonathan Lethem Jaime Clarke & Jonathan Lethem
2011 Collection Ninety Percent of Everything Jonathan Lethem & John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly
2011 Nonfiction The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. Jonathan Lethem
2015 Collection Lucky Alan and Other Stories Jonathan Lethem
2016 Novel A Gambler's Anatomy Jonathan Lethem
2016 Nonfiction The Blot Jonathan Lethem & Laurence A. Rickels
2017 Novel The Blot Jonathan Lethem
2018 Novel The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem
2020 Novel The Arrest Jonathan Lethem
2024 Nonfiction The Collapsing Frontier Plus Calvino's "Lightness" and the Feral Child of History Plus In Mugwump Four and Much More Jonathan Lethem
2025 Collection A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories Jonathan Lethem

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1992 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette The Happy Man Finalist
1992 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Happy Man Nominee
1992 Nebula Award Novelette The Happy Man Nominee
1992 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction The Happy Man Finalist
1993 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novelette Vanilla Dunk Finalist
1993 Hugo Award Best Novelette Vanilla Dunk Nominee
1993 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF "Forever," Said the Duck Nominee
1993 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Vanilla Dunk Nominee
1994 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story "Forever," Said the Duck Nominee
1994 Nebula Award Novelette Vanilla Dunk Nominee
1995 Hugo Award Best Novel Gun, with Occasional Music Nominee
1995 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Gun, with Occasional Music Winner
1995 Nebula Award Novel Gun, with Occasional Music Nominee
1995 Nebula Award Short Story Hugh Merrow Nominee
1995 SF Chronicle Award Novel Gun, with Occasional Music Finalist
1995 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History Best Short Form Alternate History Receding Horizon Nominee
1996 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Amnesia Moon Nominee
1996 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Gun, with Occasional Music Nominee
1996 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Five Fucks Nominee
1996 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Sleepy People Nominee
1996 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Amnesia Moon Nominee
1996 World Fantasy Award Best Novella The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom: (Hommage à Heinlein) Nominee
1997 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Nominee
1997 Nebula Award Short Story Five Fucks Nominee
1997 World Fantasy Award Best Collection The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye Winner
1999 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Bestes ausländisches Werk Knarre mit Begleitmusik Nominee
1999 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Girl in Landscape Nominee
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Kafka Americana Nominee
2001 Nebula Award Novella Ninety Percent of Everything Nominee
2002 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette This Shape We're In Nominee
2010 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Chronic City Nominee
2010 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction Procedure in Plain Air Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel The Arrest Nominee

Brother of Blake Lethem.
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