Philip K. Dick Festival Comes to San Francisco with Headliner Jonathan …

This September 22-23, you can mingle with Philip K. Dick fans and friends at the annual Philip K. Dick Festival at San Francisco State University. Jonathan Lethem is the guest of honor, and other guests include Dick's former editor Marc Haefele as well as Dick-influenced cultural critic/visionary Erik Davis. Attendees …

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Jonathan Lethem psychoanalyzes They Live's Ghouls

Just who are these weird people that you see when you put on the mysterious sunglasses in They Live? What do they want? More importantly, what do they mean? Novelist Jonathan Lethem investigates, in three excerpts from his new book analyzing They Live.

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David Cronenberg to direct black hole love story As She Climbed Across …

What happens when the one you love is in love with a black hole? Body horror legend David Cronenberg's is about to find out, as he's adapting Jonathan Lethem's love story As She Climbed Across the Table.

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Jonathan Lethem's Crazy Friendship With Philip K. Dick

Literary scifi nerd Jonathan Lethem, author of Fortress of Solitude, has just published an essay about his lifelong relationship with the work of Philip K. Dick. It's wistful and weird, and now it's also available for free on his website.

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How Do You Get Science Fiction To Have "Book Club Lit"?

One of the frustrating things about science fiction is that everyone's seen the year's biggest movies: Even films like Transformers 2, which most people seemed to dislike. But how many books are there that everyone you know has read?

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Why Jonathan Lethem Keeps Coming Back To Philip K. Dick

Motherless Brooklyn author Jonathan Lethem started his career channeling Philip K. Dick, and now Lethem is returning to Dick's orbit. Lethem is editing a collection of four Dick novels, and says his new novel is his most Dickian in years.

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