Jonathan Lethem — American Writer born on February 19, 1964,

Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels... (wikipedia)

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.