A Lethem devotee for life, I am reading this. But I really don’t care for his nonfiction and also isn’t writing about writing the most self-indulgent, boring topic of all time?
The thing that stands a hot chance at the moment is not a movie but the theatrical musical version of Fortress of Solitude. I think it’s really going to turn into something amazing. The composer, Michael Friedman, made the music for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. For a while, I thought it was just really silly. Now I’m beside myself with happiness, and I think it stands a chance in this coldhearted universe of ours
This is Jonathan Lethem’s brother Blake, who does some illustration work for Jonathan’s books. I googled him this morning to find more of his art, and came across this article. With sentences like this:
Admittedly, hip-hop heads in the iTunes Age don’t normally extend b-boys their rightful props, but trust that the O.G.s know about this cat.
I admit to understanding very little of what is being said. BUT, this is pretty cool:
In fact, Blake is the role model for the narrator of Jonathan’s award-winning 2003 novel Fortress of Solitude—“Parts of the book are pretty much verbatim from him,” Jonathan confirms.
