With his first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem received the attention of a new novelist of curious note, greeted as a potentially new breed of genre-referencing, sincere post-modernist storytellers whose acrobatic prose style and wild narratives garnered, more often tha
Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni