Lethem Gets Creative With Film-Option Offer

Jonathan Lethem “will option his new novel ‘You Don’t Love Me Yet’ on May 15 to a filmmaker who agrees to give him 2 percent of the movie’s budget as a fee. … In an unprecedented move, Lethem wants the filmmaker to release ‘ancillary’ rights — such as the right to distribute the novel on the Internet or make a stage play based on it — to the public domain five years after the film’s debut.”