Like the Graduate channeled by Mario Puzo

Fractured fairytales w sharp pointy teeth

Great book and totally geeked for the upcoming film - Reilly and Phoenix is inspired casting

Long live Smokey Barnacle!

Fascinating history of Eastern Germany‘s punk rock scene in the years leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall

Lethem seems to like dabbling in various genres and borrowed voices, Dissident Gardens sort of reminded me of Doctorow‘s Book of Daniel this one has a bit of Inherent Vice to it maybe?