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SUMMARY:Arts and Letters: Jonathan Lethem
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort for a very special
  edition of UCR Palm Desert’s acclaimed Arts & Letters lecture series as
  we welcome one of America’s most treasured writers\, Jonathan Lethem\, 
 for an intimate conversation with another of our most treasured writers\, 
 Ivy Pochoda. Lethem will be discussing his latest book\, A Different Kind 
 of Tension: New & Selected Stories\, followed by a book signing. Seating i
 s limited to 100 guests.\n\n \n\nAbout A Different Kind of Tension:\n\nA d
 efinitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form. 
 “Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges an
 d Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger\,” says the Chic
 ago Tribune of this dazzling\, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Leth
 em\, which features seven major new stories published since his last colle
 ction\, along with his best work spanning more than three decades. “This
  collection of new and selected stories spans thirty-five years of Lethem
 ’s career and is a testimony to his beguiling exploration of the possibi
 lities of the short story\,” the New Yorker raved. “Mastery is evident
  in one story after another.”\n\n \n\n \n\nSaturday June 6\, 2026\n\n8 P
 .M.\n\nTommy Bahama Miramonte Resort & Spa\n\n45000 Indian Wells Ln.\n\nIn
 dian Wells\, CA 92210\n\n \n\nBIOS\n\nJonathan Lethem is the bestselling a
 uthor of thirteen novels\, including Brooklyn Crime Novel\, The Feral Dete
 ctive\, and Motherless Brooklyn\, winner of the National Book Critics Circ
 le Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Al
 an\, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker\, Harper’s Mag
 azine\, and the Paris Review\, among other publications\, garnering a Push
 cart Prize\, a World Fantasy Award\, and inclusion in The Best American Sh
 ort Stories. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fell
 owship\, he lives in Los Angeles and Maine.\n\n \n\nIvy Pochoda is the aut
 hor of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley\, Visitation Street\,
  These Women\, Ecstasy\, and Sing Her Down which won the Los Angeles Times
  Book Prize. She’s also won the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and 
 the Prix Page America in France\, has been a finalist for the Edgar Award\
 , among other awards\, and her short fiction has been selected for Best Am
 erican Mystery & Suspense. She is currently a professor of creative writin
 g at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA 
 program.
LOCATION:Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort & Spa\, Grand Ballroom I\, 45000 Ind
 ian Wells Ln\, Indian Wells\, CA 92210
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