MachineMachine /stream - tagged with jonathan-lethem http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem http://jonathanlethem.com/crazyfriend.html/crazy-friend-by-jonathan-lethem CRAZY FRIEND: Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick http://t.co/MvZPjAgO #PKD ]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:50:38 -0700 http://jonathanlethem.com/crazyfriend.html/crazy-friend-by-jonathan-lethem Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE http://ttbook.org/book/philip-k-dick/philip-k-dick-to-the-best-of-our-knowledge “I wanted to write books exactly like the ones he didn't live long enough to write.” Lethem on Philip K Dick http://t.co/m3Y9WkpT ]]> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:35:20 -0700 http://ttbook.org/book/philip-k-dick/philip-k-dick-to-the-best-of-our-knowledge The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis http://tumblr.hrmtc.com/post/18676799423/the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis/the-hermetic-library-tumblr-the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis - You might be interested in the episode “The Exegesis of... http://t.co/Uc7VEs5f ]]> Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:05:19 -0700 http://tumblr.hrmtc.com/post/18676799423/the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis/the-hermetic-library-tumblr-the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick http://www.nytimes.com//the-new-york-times-breaking-news-world-news-amp-multimedia RT @nytimes: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick — Edited by Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem and Erik Davis — Book Review http://t.co/yrrheIoS ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:20:23 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com//the-new-york-times-breaking-news-world-news-amp-multimedia Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird Technology, and Constructed Realities http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/art-entertainment/chronic-citizen-jonathan-lethem-pk-dick-why-novels-are-weird-technology-a While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude, as well as his reception of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2005, Jonathan Lethem has become a successful and widely-praised author of playful and intelligent literary fictions. He has also become probably the most visible fan and proponent of the science fiction of Philip K. Dick. A few years ago, Lethem was commissioned by the august Library of America to edit a volume of Dick‘s writings for the publisher‘s… ]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:21:00 -0700 http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/art-entertainment/chronic-citizen-jonathan-lethem-pk-dick-why-novels-are-weird-technology-a The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387 Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a preteen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narrator—marked by her forever—remains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita.

The author of the story I've described, Heinz von Lichberg, published his tale… ]]>
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