One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
Jonathan LethemI had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
Jonathan LethemPoetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.
Jonathan Lethem