Poets & Writers

Rescuing Lethem’s Legends

In February novelist Jonathan Lethem joined Bill Henderson, founder of the Pushcart Press, to launch a series of reissues of Lethem’s favorite forgotten books, starting with Bad Guy, a 1982 absurdist psychodrama by Rosalyn Drexler. W. W. Norton, Pushcart’s distributor, has signed on to distribute the new series under the imprimatur Lethem’s Legends.

Henderson and Lethem came up with the idea for Lethem’s Legends on the front

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