Jonathan Lethem will be reading in New York on September 17 at the freshly brewed cultural entity the Starbucks Salon, a term I fear we will all be hearing quite a lot in the years to come. Still, I like the look of some of these events, especially this one, I admit. The site is a mite overproduced, so you might have some trouble finding the listing (which you can have emailed to you as a reminder; thanks, Starbucks!...oh dear). It's at 76 Greene St. at 4 p.m.














Click to enlarge; go to the site to interact muddledly with some Flash and illustrations on graph paper and mandatory youthful music. Keep your index finger on mute just in case.

By the way, I can't believe I only just discovered Lethem's interview with Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone. Now this is going to be fun, whatever Louis Menand says.