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In 2003, four years after Motherless Brooklyn, Lethem published The Fortress of Solitude. A chronicle of 1970s Brooklyn centered on Dean Street, a fictional neighborhood block and a cosmos, dense and rich with its own mythologies.
Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town.
Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourette's symptoms drive him to rip apart language in startling and evocative ways.
His novel Motherless Brooklyn was named Novel of the Year by Esquire magazine and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005. At Pomona, he teaches classes in creative writing and contemporary fiction.
Motherless Brooklyn’s Tourettic detective is a form of verbal graffiti artist. Perkus Tooth, in Chronic City, is another, wheat-pasting his cryptic manifestos on lampposts and garage doors.
Motherless Brooklyn is one of the very “New York” movies coming out this fall, a film-noir mystery set in 1950s based on the beloved book Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.
The film is based on the noir mystery novel set in 1950s New York City by Jonathan Lethem, shot in locations throughout NYC that evoke the era of Robert Moses and Jane...
