An Evening with Jonathan Lethem, Author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

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Award-winning bestselling author Jonathan Lethem will discuss his latest novel, Brooklyn Crime Novel, a sweeping story of community, crime and gentrification, tracing more than 50 years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. Jonathan Lethem will be in conversation with author Greg Wands.

Brooklyn Crime Novel was named a Best Book of the Year by: The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, NPR and PopMatters. 

Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books. 

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Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of 12 novels, including The Arrest, The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California.

Greg Wands writes for the page and screen. An avid lifelong reader, he grew up in Sag Harbor, NY, and now calls Manhattan home. He currently has a TV series and feature film projects in the works. He has written three books with Elizabeth Keenan under the pen name of E.G. Scott: The Woman Inside, In Case of Emergency and The Rule of Three. Most recently Greg co-wrote the novella, The Gimlet Slip, with his partner Fiona Davis. It was released as an audiobook in March.