Tag: Whiteboy

Jonathan Lethem had come back to Brooklyn, and I wanted to know why.

One afternoon a few months ago, he took me to Dean Street, the block in Boerum Hill where he grew up in the ’70s. The area is the setting of his 2003 book (and one of my favorite novels), The Fortress of Solitude, and of his new one, Brooklyn Crime Novel.

I was raised in Brooklyn too, some 15 years after Lethem, and he