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Conference Review: 'Occasional Music: A symposium on the work of Jonathan Lethem'

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  • JONATHAN LETHEM‟S WORK IS CRITICALLY ENGAGED with themes of genre, space, place, urban culture, social history, pop culture, music, cinema, digital culture, and his native New York. Traversing all these themes, Lethem‟s writing is ripe for scholars working on contemporary American fiction, and from disciplines as diverse as geography, comic book studies and law

  • Occasional Music was a one-day event bringing together scholars from the UK and USA, all of whom engage with Lethem‟s work in a diverse array of contexts

  • As Brooker explained in his opening remarks, the title of the event is taken from Lethem‟s first published novel, Gun with Occasional Music, and nods to both this early work and to the occasional music that is itself a theme of Lethem‟s work

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JONATHAN LETHEM‟S WORK IS CRITICALLY ENGAGED with themes of genre, space, place, urban culture, social history, pop culture, music, cinema, digital culture, and his native New York. Reading TFoS as a novel about endings, nostalgia, and mourning, this first paper began a consideration of the ideals of „communities‟, and of representations of autonomous temporalities in Lethem‟s writing (themes that would recur throughout the day).

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