Popular Brooklyn writer Jonathan Lethem is taking his financial affairs into his own hands, but he might want to leave it to the professionals next time. According to jonathanlethem.com, the man behind such lauded novels as Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn plans to give away the movie rights to his new novel, You Don't Love Me Yet, free of charge. On May 15th, the writer expects to announce the hand-picked filmmaker who will adapt his book. Naturally, he or she will be contractually obligated to give Lethem two percent of the budget and the ancillary rights to the novel after five years, but there will be no advances, which is meant to give low-budget filmmakers an even shot. This transfer of power from the literary corporation to the artist is Lethem's rejection of “the typical ways art is commodified” and is part of a scheme he dubbed The Promiscuous Materials Project. He admits it's just an experiment at this point, but with a handful of his stories already in big-budget-feature production, he has the luxury of a little experimentation.