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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
Soon I Will Be Invincible

eggofthedead, May 2, 2007

First of all, great cover! I grabbed it right away out of the endless stack of review copies. Second of all, great first chapter! Had to be to keep me from grabbing something else off the aforementioned stack. The chapters introducing the two lead characters are available to read online and everyone I've pointed to them has clamored for more. Mind you, I know a LOT of geeks. Finally, it just kept going with engaging, unique characters and an hilarious three-dimensional look into a way of life usually revealed in flat persepctive in the world of comic books. I'll be handselling the heck out of it to fans of comics like the X-Men, books like World War Z and films like Mystery Men.

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