You Don't Love Me Yet

but I DO LOVE Jonathan Lethem.

I loved Motherless Brooklyn.... and I LOVED The Fortress of Solitude. In fact, I push the Fortress of Solitude on anyone who will listen. I believe it's "The voice of my generation."

His newest book ... You Don't Love Me Yet... I was worried I wouldn't like it. It sounds flufflier in content then his previous books. On it's surface it's about a struggling indi rock band in LA. But Like he does, halfway through the book, I'm already in love the characters and in love with his words. He waxes lyric prose in such a breathtaking and seemily easy way.

The novel is also, under the surface, an argument about intellectual property. I'm not sure how I feel about the stance I'm sure he's taking ... and has taken (in his essay for harpers) But I'm smitten ...I have a writers crush that knows no bounds.

I've read a couple reviews of the novel and they seemed to be a bit mixed ...and while it's not as emotional (at least for me) as Fortress of Solitude ... it's Lethem all way ... And I love it. Go read it...go read it now.