*Lethem, Jonathan: -Jonathan Lethemis the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel *, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fictio...

*Lethem, Jonathan: -Jonathan Lethemis the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel *, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.