Jonathan Lethem

Here's Lethem's biography plus a photo from the Random House site. You'll also find a jacket cover of the novel Motherless Brooklyn there, and links to excerpts and an author reading.

Here's a hyperlinked bibliography about Lethem from Hycyber.com, with some information about the awards he's won: The Gold Dagger for crime writing in 2000, and the World Fantasy Award for his collection The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye in 1997.

In 2000, Zachary Houle of SFSite.com conducted this interview with Lethem.

Here's a letter Lethem wrote about the Australian rock band the Go-Betweens. He sent it over to OpenLetters.com, "a dormant magazine of first person writing in the form of personal correspondence."

This CNN site is called September 11/A Memorial.

This page has links to three essays dealing with the September 11^th terror attacks and their impact upon globalization. Before you visit and take a look, make a list of the things you think these attacks might affect on a world scale and compare it to what you find online.

Does the general issue of criminal justice and terrorists sound like a worthwhile research topic? If so, take a visit to this directory about the war on terrorism and human rights and liberties from Google.com.

Some commentators advocated the use of "torture warrants" following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Read this essay about the debate that ensued. After you've absorbed the main points, compare and contrast this justice issue with one raised by one of your readings.

This is a directory from Google.com. This is the path: Society>Religion and Spirituality>Islam. After you visit this directory, find another directory in that path that relates to you.