Month: September 2003

Jonathan Lethem, Fortress of Solitude

Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, September 26, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. Most of Jonathan Lethem’s early writing career consisted of science fiction novels that leaned toward the Philip K. Dick side of the genre—experimental, unorthodox and pounding on the door of literary respectability. When …

Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, September 26, 2003. Read the complete article on the original website. Back for their first proper album in three years, Glasgow’s finest exporters of sensitive, bespectacled pop have lost two founding members, switched labels and picked up a superstar producer in Trevor Horn, whose …