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Jim Lewis


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Jim Lewis, born 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American novelist. Soon after he was born, his family moved to New York; there, and in London, he was raised. He received a degree in philosophy from Brown University in 1984, and an M.A. in the same subject from Columbia University, before deciding to leave academia.

Since then, he has published three novels, Sister (published by Graywolf in 1993), Why the Tree Loves the Ax (published by Crown in 1998), and The King is Dead (published by Knopf in 2003). All three have been published in the UK as well, and individually translated into several languages, including French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Greek.

In addition to his novels, he has written extensively on the visual arts, for dozens of magaz
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Ghosts of New York

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Why the Tree Loves the Ax

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The King Is Dead

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“well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.”
Jim Lewis

“Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.”
Jim Lewis, Jim Henson's Doodle Dreams

“one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.”
Jim Lewis, Sister

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