Jonathan Lethem wants to be a character in slash fan fiction
I had to laugh at this little item over at Wired. Jonathan Lethem met with Annalee Newitz for a Wired profile she’s writing, and he revealed that he wanted his fans to write slash fan fiction and cast him as a character:
I met up with Jonathan Lethem last week to talk about the joys of living outside copyright laws, and the award-winning nerd novelist revealed that he’d love to be in a slash fiction story. Whom would he want to be paired with? “I want to be surprised! I want to see ones I wouldn’t think of!” he enthused, eyes wide with anticipation — or possibly fear. Lethem believes he’s been “slashed” only once, paired with fellow geek novelist Michael Chabon in a “sublimated homoerotic comic by Patricia Storms that was just an inch away from being Kirk and Spock.”
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Nobody writes slash about authors, do they? Lethem should get a TV show.
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