Carolyn Kellogg talks with Jonathan Lethem, who’s just exchanged the “New York literary scene for a teaching gig at Pomona College.”
‘Apart from being very happy in Claremont, I'm excited to be in Southern California, such a charged, allegorical place for me,’ Lethem says. While he hasn't been here long enough to develop, as he puts it, ‘a personal myth of my relationship to the place,’ he has to admit, ‘I've been thinking about it at a distance for a long time.’