White Boy Walking

Evan Hughes

  • BuyYou Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
    Faber, 224 pp, £10.99, May 2007, ISBN 978 0 571 23562 9

When Jonathan Lethem was born, in 1964, his mother had dropped out of college and was piercing ears with a pin and ice-cube in Greenwich Village, where she ran with a crowd of folksingers including Tuli Kupferberg, Dave Van Ronk and Phil Ochs. His father, in an early phase of his career as an artist, was painting basketball hoops, vices and stereopticons. After a time the family settled in a neighbourhood to the south of downtown Brooklyn, where young whites were buying brownstones on the cheap.

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