In the latter novel, Lethem suggests that the neighborhood was renamed from North Gowanus in the wake of gentrification beginning in the early 1970s, the period for his lead characters ' childhoods.

Contemporary writers based in the city, many of whom live in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, include Norman Mailer, Barbara Garson, Don DeLillo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Thomas Pynchon and many others.

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

New York has also been the setting for countless works of literature, many of them produced by the city ’ s large population of writers ( which have included Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Lethem, John O ' Hara, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Pynchon, Susan Sontag, George Tabb and many others ).

This road was constructed as a section of a highway connecting Georgetown with Lethem.

In 1968 a bridge was built across the Demerara River at Linden, and, in 1974, it was decided that the route to Lethem would cross the Demerara River at Linden and go south, along the watershed of the Demerara and Essequibo Rivers, through Mabura, to Kurupukari.

Since there was already an existing road between Mabura and Kurupukari, and between Annai and Lethem, it was now possible for vehicles to travel between Georgetown and Lethem.

" This sense of exclusion was articulated by Jonathan Lethem in an essay published in the Village Voice entitled " Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction.

" Among the responses to Lethem was one from the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction who asked: " When is it SF genre ever going to realize it can't win the game of trying to impress the mainstream?

It is named after Sir Gordon James Lethem, who was the Governor of British Guiana from 1941 to 12 April 1947.

The reform-minded governor, Sir Gordon Lethem, reduced property qualifications for officeholding and voting, and made elective members a majority on the Legislative Council in 1943.

Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn wrote: " Read Vernon God Little not only for its dangerous relevance, but for the coruscating wit and raw vitality of its voice.

Writer Jonathan Lethem credited Charles Mee as one of the inspirations for his " Promiscuous Project " in which he made a selection of his stories available for filmmakers or dramatists to adapt at a dollar apiece.

He is married to Barbara Lethem Ibrahim, director of the Gerhart Center for Civic Engagement and Philanthropy in Cairo.

Lethem is part of the Guyanese Rupununi savannah where there are many vaqueiros spoken for Portuguese language, or cowboys, and ranches.

Persons traveling by air to Lethem should know that there are strict weight restrictions for luggage.

Because Lethem never lets the metaphorical and linguistic possibilities of his narrator's illness overshadow his immensely appealing humanity, we really care about Lionel and his search for his mentor's killer.

The Guyanese and Brazilian governments recently built a bridge over the Takatu river just north of Lethem.

From Kurupukari it would run parallel to the old cattle trail to Annai, and from Annai it would follow an already existing road to Lethem.

While travel to Brazil is via the old cattle trail it has been upgraded into a fair weather track that passes through the bauxite-producing town of Linden and ending at Lethem.

Construction continues on a bridge linking Guyana and Brazil at Lethem.

In 2007, construction resumed on the Takutu River Bridge to link Guyana and Brazil in the southwest of Guyana near Lethem.

Unprecedented construction and population growth in Lethem since the bridge's opening reflects the significantly increased traffic and movement of goods facilitated by the bridge.

On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh.

He attended Bennington College, where he met and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt, Jonathan Lethem, Francis Lombard and Joseph McLaughlin, none of whom were aware of his literary aspirations.

Editor Jonathan Lethem described the upcoming publications as " absolutely stultifying, brilliant, repetitive, and contradictory.

* " The Zebra Struck " In The Vintage Book of Amnesia, edited by Jonathan Lethem.

20 Years of Merge Records throughout the 20th anniversary year curated by pop culture tastemakers the likes of David Byrne, Amy Poehler, Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Buck, David Chang, Mindy Kaling and more, with all proceeds going to charities.

Among the more notable of Bennington's alumni are: Alan Arkin, Andrew Kromelow, Anne Ramsey, Anthony Wilson, Carol Channing, Donna Tartt, Andrea Dworkin, Kathleen Norris, Susan Crile, Kiran Desai, Bret Easton Ellis, Judith Butler, Libby Zion, Jill Eisenstadt, Jonathan Lethem, Justin Theroux, Michael Pollan, Helen Frankenthaler, Cora Cohen, Liz Phillips, Tim Daly, Roger Kimball, Holland Taylor, Bradley S. Jacobs, Melissa Rosenberg, Jane Thompson, Peggy Adler and Peter Dinklage.

A new generation of writers — such as David Foster Wallace, Giannina Braschi, Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, Chuck Palahniuk, Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Richard Powers, Jonathan Lethem — and publications such as McSweeney's, The Believer, and the fiction pages of The New Yorker, herald either a new chapter of postmodernism or possibly post-postmodernism.

" Participants have included the writers Joan Didion, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, the filmmaker Miranda July, comedians Jeff Garlin and Patton Oswalt, playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, magician Ricky Jay, artists Tom Morello and Sam Durant, and many others.

The book received critical praise from authors such as Bill Barich, Carl Hiaasen, Norman Mailer, Jonathan Lethem, Naomi Wolf, and Martin Cruz Smith.

* I'm Not Jim ( with the novelist Jonathan Lethem ), You Are All My People, Bloodshot, 2008.

* Richard Brown Lethem, avant-garde artist, lived in a commune in pre-gentrified North Gowanus with his wife Judith, son Jonathan Lethem and two younger children

Lethem lies on the Takutu River, which forms the border with Brazil, opposite the Brazilian town of Bonfim.

There are several retail establishments throughout Lethem and U. S. currency is typically accepted along with the Guyanese Dollar.

Lethem has an airport ( IATA Code: LTM ) that connects it to the capital, Georgetown with scheduled air service most weekdays.

" Subsequent one-volume editions include The Brooklyn Novels, with an introduction by the novelist Jonathan Lethem, published in 2006 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher.

He worked with Roland Lethem, Étienne O ’ Leary, Jesus Franco, Jean Rollin and Alain Payet.

Through violence, pornography and cruelty of some scenes, Roland Lethem is a gentle, generous man with of a lot of humour.

The main town is Lethem, located beside the Takutu River, the border with Brazil.