You Don’t Love Me Yet
A short novel about a Los Angeles band that rehearses more than it plays, and the songs that arrive anyway.
A band in Los Angeles rehearses, writes songs, and plays perhaps three times before falling apart. Lethem’s short novel is a comedy about the alternative rock scene and about the moment when a group of people playing separately suddenly become one thing.
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Greil Marcus
This is a short novel that Jonathan Lethem published a few years ago about a bunch of young people who form a band in Los Angeles. They’re writing songs and trying to rehearse. In the course of the book, before the band breaks up, they play maybe three times – once at a radio show, once at a party and one other time. That’s their whole performing career.
Interview · December 2011
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