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Jonathan Lethem: "Verbosity, Exile, and Punning: How to Write About Brooklyn From Afar."

Please join us for an afternoon with Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author, novelist, and essayist who the LA Times
says is "one of our most perceptive cultural critics, conversant in both the high and low realms, his insights
buffeted by his descriptive imagination."

Talk title: "Verbosity, Exile, and Punning: How To Write About Brooklyn From Afar."

WEDNESDAY, May 9, 2012
4:00-6:00 PM in HIB 135

"Aside from being one of the most inventive writers on the planet, Lethem is also one of the funniest." San
Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending fiction weaves the conventions of noir mysteries, westerns, science fiction, and
comic books into coming-of-age tales that are evocative and wholly original. He is the author of eight novels
including the much lauded Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude and is the winner of a MacArthur
Foundation Genius Grant. In the spring of 2010, Lethem was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Pratt Institute
and became the second Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing at Pomona College, succeeding David Foster
Wallace. This prestigious appointment at one of the nation's premier liberal arts colleges is a fitting
acknowledgment of Lethem's contributions to contemporary American literature and creative culture. Lethem's
writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, The Paris
Review, The Believer, Granta, and McSweeney's. He also authored the 10-part revival of the popular 1970s
comic Omega the Unknown, which was published by Marvel in 2007-8. He is currently working on another novel
set in New York in the 1950's and 60's.

***This event is sponsored by the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator and the International Center for
Writing and Translation. The panel is free and open to all faculty, students, and staff. We look forward to seeing
you there!***