Jonathan Lethem

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  culture Summer 2018

  Met Cute

  In 2006, Ivan Felt and Harris Conklin—the alter egos of Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Sorrentino—collaborated on Believeniks!, their ode to the Mets. After more than a decade of silence, they recently resurfaced to weigh in on I’m Keith Hernandez (Little, Brown, $28), and to reminisce about highlights in the history of the beleaguered Queens franchise. —eds.

  Dear Ivan, I’m watching Mets-Nats on the laptop my nephew Orson (the names on these kids!) mercifully debugged for me. It’s the “MLB.tv Free Game of the Day,” thus my reprieve from the multiple layers of techno-exile that typically

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  print Dec/Jan 2015

  They’ve Got Reissues

  FUNNY HOW things call up their opposites. We’re in the age of radical damage to the attention-span-o-sphere, everyone knows that except the denialists. And web culture is distributed, collaborative, appropriative—fan fiction rules. So, right, naturally there has arisen a craving for the experience of long-quest immersion in vast narratives generated by a single brain—2666, 1Q84, Infinite Jest, My Struggle, etc. The long novel has never been better exalted. (We even dig pretending our television serials are generated by a similarly consummate and mysterious Authority, the showrunner.)

  Consideration

• culture Winter 1998

  DARK PASSAGES
• culture Summer 1999

  YOU TALKIN' TO ME?
• culture Winter 1999
• culture Summer 2000

  NORTH STAR
• fiction Fall 2000

  THE BUTLER DID IT
• culture Summer 2001

  NOT BRAND ECHH!
• culture Summer 2002

  YOU DON'T KNOW DICK