Last night I heard Jonathan Lethem and Nathan Englander do a reading at the 92nd Street Y. For clarification purposes, the dude on the cover of You Don’t Love Me Yet is definitely not Lethem. Lethem did a great job reading one of the chapters by assuming the voices/personalities of his characters. I have not read the book yet but as we have previously discussed, it’s about a nascent rock band in L.A. During the Q&A, one of the questions referred to Lethem’s interview with Bob Dylan and asked what Lethem was currently listening to. He talked a little about his love for music and then described how many people assumed he actually was a music critic since The Fortress of Solitude was semi-autobiographical. He laughingly told how he got to jump to the top of the food chain and was asked by Rolling Stone to interview James Brown and Dylan even though he had absolutely no experience in this area. Classic.
