Lethem, Jonathan

"[Presents a collection of] fifty selections from fifty writers covering approximately fifty years of American rock and pop writing"--Page xi.

Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.

Dylan Edbus and Mingus Rude have developed a strong friendship, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is African-American, their friendship is not simple and they struggle to stay connected, despite their vastly different upbringings and societal roles.

Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.

Anthropologist Philip Engstrand watches his relationship with a female particle-physicist deteriorate when she begins spending her time studying a possible portal to another world.

Presents the first ten volumes of the "Omega: The Unknown" comic, which features the adventures of a mute, reluctant super hero and the teenage boy who shares his destiny.

A family saga about three generations of American radicals as they struggle to follow their own utopian dreams.

Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.

Anthropologist Philip Engstrand watches his relationship with a female particle-physicist deteriorate when she begins spending her time studying a possible portal to another world.

Chase Insteadman, a former child star who supports his active Manhattan social life with residual income from a sitcom on which he worked whose scientist-astronaut fianc? is stuck in space, is befriended by a marijuana-smoking pop critic who enlists Chase's help in unearthing the answers to several questions he has about truth and reality.