The Collapsing Frontier Plus Calvino's "Lightness" and the Feral Child of History Plus In Mugwump Four and Much More
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | PM Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Type | Nonfiction |
| Cover art | Ian Byers-Gamber |
| Pages | 158+[1] |
| Price | $16.00 |
| ISBN | 9781629634883 |
Contains five essays, an interview, and two pieces of shortfiction, with one essay and one short story being original to the volume.
- First print co-edition (not stated); according to Amazon.com there were simultaneous hardcover & ebook editions.
- "The Collapsing Frontier Jonathan Lethem © 2024" & "This edition © PM Press" is stated on the copyright page.
- "The Collapsing Frontier" was previously published under the the title "Narrowing Valley", the pieces appearing after page 113 are original to this volume.
- First printing according to the number line.
- "Series Editor: {{A|Terry Bisson}}" is stated on the copyright page, where also the credits for the individual items, the ISBN & the LCCN are printed.
- There are 10 unpaginated pages preceding p. 1. The table of contents is printed on the ninth of those.
- The note "About the Author" on page [159] only features the web adress of Lethem's home page.
- The author photograph on the cover is credited on the copyright page and on the back.
- "Cover design by John Yates/www.stealworks.com" is stated on the copyright page.
- The price is stated on the back.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction | Jonathan Lethem | Essay |
| 25 | Snowden in the Labyrinth | Jonathan Lethem | Essay |
| 53 | The Collapsing Frontier | Jonathan Lethem | Short Story |
| 65 | "Rooms Full of Old Books Are Immortal Enough for Me" | Terry Bisson & Jonathan Lethem | Interview |
| 77 | My Year of Reading Lemmishly | Jonathan Lethem | Essay |
| 87 | Summa Technologiae | Jonathan Lethem & Stanislaw Lem | Review |
| 102 | Memoirs Found in a Bathtub | Jonathan Lethem & Stanislaw Lem | Review |
| 106 | Solaris | Jonathan Lethem & Stanislaw Lem | Review |
| 109 | Fiasco | Jonathan Lethem & Stanislaw Lem | Review |
| 110 | His Master's Voice | Jonathan Lethem & Stanislaw Lem | Review |
| 113 | Calvino's "Lightness" and the Feral Child of History | Jonathan Lethem | Essay |
| 137 | In Mugwump Four | Jonathan Lethem | Short Story |
| 157 | Secret Bibliography | Jonathan Lethem | Essay |
| 25|25.1 | Is That What People Do? | Jonathan Lethem & Robert Sheckley | Review |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| The Collapsing Frontier Plus Calvino's "Lightness" and the Feral Child of History Plus In Mugwump Four and Much More |
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2024 | PM Press | Hardcover | Nonfiction | 158+[1] |