English Department VIEWS presents: Jonathan Lethem. Jonathan Lethem’s genre-defying fiction weaves the conventions of noirs, westerns, science fiction, and graphic novels into something both evocative and wholly original. The “bard of Brooklyn” (LitHub) is the author of more than a dozen books — including the much-lauded novels Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude — and the winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Books will be available for purchase.