The collapsing frontier : plus Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history, plus In Mugwump Four and much more / Jonathan Lethem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lethem, Jonathan, author, interviewee.

Contributor:

Bisson, Terry, interviewer.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

PM Press outspoken authors series ; 30.

PM Press outspoken authors series ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Essays.

Physical Description:

158 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

This edition © PM Press

Other Title:

Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history

In Mugwump Four

Place of Publication:

[Oakland, CA] : PM Press, 2024.

Summary:

In this unique volume, the best-selling author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn. one of the principal makers of modern American literature, who has transformed SF and detective fiction, presents two short stories-one published in the New Yorker and one written especially for this book.

Contents:

David Bowman and the furry-girl school of American fiction

Snowden in the labyrinth

The collapsing frontier

"Rooms full of old books are immortal enough for me" / Johnathan Lethem interviewed by Terry Bisson

My year of reading lemmishly

Calvino's "Lightness" and the feral child of history

In mugwump four.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9798887440293

9781629634883

1629634883

OCLC:

1376755153

Publisher Number:

99996232156