1. To me, Motherless Brooklyn is Lethem’s best book (and one of my favorite books ever), but Fortress is a close second. It is also a remarkable book about a place, a very specific place, and this illustration is therefore so wonderful. theparisreview: A page from a timeline, with notes and Post-it notes, that Jonathan Lethem had pinned up over his desk while working on The Fortress of Solitude.

    To me, Motherless Brooklyn is Lethem’s best book (and one of my favorite books ever), but Fortress is a close second. It is also a remarkable book about a place, a very specific place, and this illustration is therefore so wonderful.

    theparisreview:

    A page from a timeline, with notes and Post-it notes, that Jonathan Lethem had pinned up over his desk while working on The Fortress of Solitude.

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