The Gotham Gazette talks up Jonathan Lethem on books, race, genre fiction, and gentrification -- but mostly this interview is all about New York. There is an interesting tidbit on his next novel, though:

...I’ve spent awhile writing about Brooklyn and superheroes and, kind of, detectives.

I wanted to stop with all of that at once, and so I just wrote a novel that has no fantastic element—no superhero or talking animal of any kind—that also has no Brooklyn in it—it’s not set in New York; it’s set in Los Angeles. If you’ll notice, the last books all, in a way, have parenthood in common. There’s always fathers and sons in these books, and, if you read Motherless Brooklyn, it’s sort of about adopted fathers and adopted sons. But, I wanted to throw that out, so there’s no children and parents. The characters in this novel are all twenty-somethings living in Los Angeles, trying to start a rock band. It’s quite a silly book, in comparison to Fortress; it’s a romantic comedy.

Hmm. (That's a hmm expressing both "intrigued anticipation" and "muted skepticism.") Well, we'll see. I've liked everything else he's done. (via TEV)