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Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Literature/GunWithOccasionalMusic'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American author and author, essayist and short story writer known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Literature/GunWithOccasionalMusic'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.
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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Literature/GunWithOccasionalMusic'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Literature/GunWithOccasionalMusic'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.
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* HardboiledDetective: Conrad Metcalf, the protagonist of ''Gun, With Occasional Music'' is a hard-boiled detective in a world that doesn't really have a use for them anymore.

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!! Works with a page on this wiki:
* ''Literature/GunWithOccasionalMusic'' (1994)
* ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'' (1999)

!! Selected other works:
* ''Amnesia Moon'' (1995)
* ''As She Climbed Across the Table'' (1997)
* ''Girl in Landscape'' (1998)
* ''The Fortress of Solitude'' (2003)
* ''Chronic City'' (2009)
* ''A Gambler's Anatomy'' (2016)



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* CreepyChild: ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', features "babyheads", toddlers who have been genetically modified to possess adult-level intelligence. Unfortunately, they also have adult-level cynicism and bad habits.



* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', a futuristic FilmNoir-style story, tells us about a world where the population takes a variety of state-supplied drugs like Forgetol, Acceptol and Regretol (collectively called "Make") to get them through the day.



* UpliftedAnimal: ''Gun, with Occasional Music'' features several. Most notably, the uplifted kangaroo, Joey Castle.
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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', ''Literature/GunWithOccasionalMusic'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.
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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated UsefulNotes/{{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.
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* SciFiGhetto: Averted, as trying to figure out exactly ''what'' genre Lethem writes in is a game among critics and book-lovers.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending GenreBusting works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown''.


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* GenreBusting: His books are hodgepodges of various genres, such as sci-fi books, detective novels and autobiographical elements.


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** One major character was the ghostwriter for eccentric playboy physicist Emil Junrow's witty memoir ''I Can't Quite Believe You Said That, Dr. Junrow'', who as described bears no small resemblance to RichardFeynman, eccentric playboy physicist and writer of the witty memoir ''"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"''

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** One major character was the ghostwriter for eccentric playboy physicist Emil Junrow's witty memoir ''I Can't Quite Believe You Said That, Dr. Junrow'', who as described bears no small resemblance to RichardFeynman, UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, eccentric playboy physicist and writer of the witty memoir ''"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"''
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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.
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* BigApplesauce: Many of his works are set in or around New York City, especially Brooklyn. Or a fantastical version of Brooklyn.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a reboot of the {{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a study of the Music/TalkingHeads album ''Music/FearOfMusic'' to a reboot of the {{Marvel Creator/{{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.

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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In his ''Pep Talk'' for NaNoWriMo 2011, he mentions "the epiphanies and {{pratfall}}s. The epiphanic pratfalls," in stories.

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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In his ''Pep Talk'' for NaNoWriMo UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo 2011, he mentions "the epiphanies and {{pratfall}}s. The epiphanic pratfalls," in stories.
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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a reboot of the {{MarvelComic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.

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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a reboot of the {{MarvelComic|s}}, {{Marvel Comic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.
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Jonathan Lethem is an American author and essayist known for his eccentric, genre-bending works. He burst onto the scene with his {{Nebula|Award}}-nominated first novel, ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', which deconstructed the HardboiledDetective in a surreal futuristic setting. He broke out into mainstream recognition with the novel ''Literature/MotherlessBrooklyn'', about a gangster with Tourette's Syndrome. He has written a wide variety of other works, ranging from a series of interviews with Music/BobDylan to a reboot of the {{MarvelComic|s}}, ''OmegaTheUnknown''.

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* AfterTheEnd: ''Amnesia Moon'' is set in a strange post-apocalyptic world, after the US has been devastated by a nuclear attack.
* BigApplesauce: Many of his works are set in or around New York City, especially Brooklyn. Or a fantastical version of Brooklyn.
* BlessedWithSuck: In ''Fortress of Solitude'', two emotionally detached boys with antisocial tendencies in 1970's Brooklyn find a "magic ring" worn by a homeless man that grants superpowers (initially flight, then later invisibility). The powers are real, but the ring has no lasting effects on their fates as they come of age; they briefly toy with the idea of "fighting crime", but finding that it's more difficult in practice than it sounds, they lose interest in the ring and blithely continue to commit their own preferred crimes (petty theft, graffiti-tagging, drug dealing and abuse). [[spoiler:One ends up spending most of his adult life in jail, and the other drops out of college and grows up to be chronically unhappy]]. Meanwhile, their ring goes years between being worn. The implication is that the way people relate to others, rather than their abilities, is what shapes their destinies.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In his ''Pep Talk'' for NaNoWriMo 2011, he mentions "the epiphanies and {{pratfall}}s. The epiphanic pratfalls," in stories.
* CaptainErsatz: This is a repeating theme in ''Chronic City'', which contains numerous [[CaptainErsatz Captains Ersatz]] of various culture references large and small. Interestingly, just as many and varied cultural touchstones are included as themselves, helping create a pervasive feeling of a pop cultural zeitgeist almost but not entirely our own. A few examples:
** One major character was the ghostwriter for eccentric playboy physicist Emil Junrow's witty memoir ''I Can't Quite Believe You Said That, Dr. Junrow'', who as described bears no small resemblance to RichardFeynman, eccentric playboy physicist and writer of the witty memoir ''"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"''
** TheMuppets are replaced in the pop culture of this world by "Gnuppets"
** Russ Grinspoon, described as "the lamer half of [the] well-forgotten seventies smooth-rock duo Grinspoon and Hale" is likely meant as an AlternateUniverse [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]].
* CreepyChild: ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', features "babyheads", toddlers who have been genetically modified to possess adult-level intelligence. Unfortunately, they also have adult-level cynicism and bad habits.
* GhostPlanet: ''Girl In Landscape'' primarily takes place on a GhostPlanet which is being sparsely colonized by humans. There are still a few lingering aliens, but they have only a passive interest in either the humans or the relics of their ruined civilization.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: ''Gun, with Occasional Music'', a futuristic FilmNoir-style story, tells us about a world where the population takes a variety of state-supplied drugs like Forgetol, Acceptol and Regretol (collectively called "Make") to get them through the day.
* {{Homage}}: ''Amnesia Moon'' was created as an homage to Creator/PhilipKDick, and in particular, his novel ''Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb''. The novel contains several shout-outs to various of Dick's works.
* HardboiledDetective: Conrad Metcalf, the protagonist of ''Gun, With Occasional Music'' is a hard-boiled detective in a world that doesn't really have a use for them anymore.
* {{Retconjuration}}: In ''Amnesia Moon'' this power is possessed by a number of people, which to some extent includes main character Chaos/Everett Moon. The effect is that as you move across the country, you can be thrown from one reality into another that's completely different.
* UpliftedAnimal: ''Gun, with Occasional Music'' features several. Most notably, the uplifted kangaroo, Joey Castle.
* SuperZeroes: This trope is the core element of his short story, "Super Goat Man".
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