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Elton Reads A Book A Week"Cranky Goes to Boom Boom Town" - "The Arrest" by Jonathan Lethem"Under the watchful eyes of Bob's Stratos and Apollo..."This week Elton is asking the big questions: What do you do when the world ends, not with a bang, but with a sudden, awkward silence?In this special crossover event, Elton is joined by the one and only Glen Nuzzle from the Nuzzle House podcast to unpack Jonathan Lethem’s post-technological fever dream, The Arrest.Imagine the "Off" switch for the entire world was flipped. No internet, no cars, no planes—just a sudden, quiet return to a pastoral life. This is the worl...
2026-03-132h 05
Radio Free Mike023 Jonathan Lethem: A Different Kind of TensionThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelscottmoore.substack.comJonathan Lethem is the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, which became a film with Ed Norton, and Fortress of Solitude, which got turned into an off-Broadway musical. He’s just published a career collection of short stories from the early nineties to the present, titled A Different Kind of Tension, after a Buzzcocks song. We talk about the tension in his work between the real and the surreal, about talking animals — including a show-biz crab in one good story — and, well, a lot ab...
2025-12-0213 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi1002. Jonathan LethemJonathan Lethem is the author of A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories, available from Ecco. It was the official October 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
Lethem is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American...
2025-11-041h 09Otherppl with Brad Listi1002. Jonathan LethemJonathan Lethem is the author of A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories, available from Ecco. It was the official October 2025 pick of the Otherppl Book Club.
Lethem is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His five story collections include Men and Cartoons and Lucky Alan, and his short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the Paris Review, among other publications, garnering a Pushcart Prize, a World Fantasy Award, and inclusion in The Best American...
2025-11-041h 09
Concavity ShowEpisode 87 - Jonathan Lethem, author of A Different Kind of Tension & The Fortress of SolitudeFor Episode 87, Matt and Dave are joined by the Jonathan Lethem, who has a new short story collection out on September 23rd, A Different Kind of Tension. We discuss it, many of his novels and his non-fiction writing, his committment to craft, teaching, bookselling, and much more.
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2025-09-231h 15
Enjoy The Sensational Full Audiobook Now, Knowledge Hunters!Talking Heads' Fear of Music by Jonathan LethemPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/1606to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Talking Heads' Fear of Music
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Keith Brown
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 05-13-25
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Genres: Music
Publisher's Summary:
Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece—edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the ba...
2025-05-134h 05
SWR Kultur lesenswert - LiteraturJonathan Lethem – Der Fall Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem eröffnet seinen Roman mit einer merkwürdigen Szene im Jahr 1978. Da sitzen zwei vierzehnjährige Jungs in einer Wohnung und zersägen 25-Cent-Münzen in vier Teile.
Eine „völlig sinnlose Tätigkeit“, wie auch der Erzähler feststellt. Was natürlich nicht stimmt, denn noch am selben Tag wird sich zeigen, was es damit auf sich hat – die Leser erfahren das allerdings erst 300 Seiten später.
Jonathan Lethems Roman hat eine ungewöhnliche Erzählstruktur. Er ist eine Collage aus Short Cuts, Erzählungen, Ereignissen, angesiedelt in den 1950er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart hinein, kunstvoll arrangiert zu einem Wimmelbild...
2025-03-2305 min
Why Us? podcast with Dave and NanceWhy Us? Ep. On Originality and Authentic Art vs. AI - ”The Ecstasy of Influence” by Jonathan LethemWe read and discuss:
The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism by Jonathan Lethem
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2024-12-222h 25
Made in EnglandEyes Wide Shut (1999) with Jonathan LethemWhen his wife admits to having fantasies about another man, Dr Bill Harford becomes obsessively jealous and finds himself on a psychosexual odyssey through an erotic underworld in Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick cast married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and recreated New York City on a Pinewood studios backlot in the longest shoot in film history. Eyes Wide Shut confounded many on its initial release, but over time has proven to be worthy of as much study and acclaim as any of Kubrick’s masterpieces. Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and F...
2024-12-181h 17
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life652: Jonathan Lethem!In this week's show, John speaks with Jonathan Lethem about the pull of Brooklyn and obsession, the craft of guiding the reader through unusual storytelling, and bold balancing acts as storytellers.
2024-12-1458 min
Time SensitiveJonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory ArtPerhaps best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn (1999), The Fortress of Solitude (2003), and Chronic City (2009)—or, more recently, Brooklyn Crime Novel (2023)—the author, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem could be considered the ultimate modern-day Brooklyn bard, even if today he lives in California, where he’s a professor of English and creative writing at Pomona College. His most celebrated books take place in Brooklyn, or in the case of Chronic City, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and across his genre-spanning works of fiction, his narratives capture a profound sense of the rich chaos and wonder to be found in...
2024-10-301h 12
Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book LoversJonathan Lethem, author of BROOKLYN CRIME NOVELJonathan Lethem is one of the smartest, riskiest, and most experimental writers working in crime fiction today. He writes about crime not only like a fiction writer with all that propulsive page turning thrill, but also like a sociologist, a psychologist, a historian and a philosopher. That might never have been truer of his work than his latest, Brooklyn Crime Novel, which came out last year and is recently out in paperback. It's as much a book about gentrification, integration, race, class, economics, and all the things that come with coming-of-age stories like sex and drugs and skateboards and...
2024-10-0754 minWriters on WritingJonathan Lethem, author of BROOKLYN CRIME NOVELJonathan Lethem is one of the smartest, riskiest, and most experimental writers working in crime fiction today. He writes about crime not only like a fiction writer with all that propulsive page turning thrill, but also like a sociologist, a psychologist, a historian and a philosopher. That might never have been truer of his work than his latest, Brooklyn Crime Novel, which came out last year and is recently out in paperback. It's as much a book about gentrification, integration, race, class, economics, and all the things that come with coming-of-age stories like sex and drugs and skateboards and...
2024-10-0754 min
Portland Press Herald AudioMaine Voices Live with author Jonathan LethemPortland Press Herald staff writer Ray Routhier sat down with author Jonathan Lethem for a conversation during a live event at One Longfellow Square on Tuesday, August 13. Jonathan Lethem is the author of thirteen novels including The Arrest and Brooklyn Crime Novel. His stories and essay have been collected in seven volumes, and his writing has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine. His novel Motherless Brooklyn was named Novel of the Year by Esquire magazine and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award...
2024-09-0457 min
How Long GoneJonathan LethemJonathan Lethem is a writer from New York who is currently living in Southern California. His newest book, Cellophane Bricks, is out now. We spoke with him from his house in Maine about three shower days, tomato sandwiches, he just drove from Los Angeles to Maine, the best molé in Utah, early tech media, dropping out of Bennington College, when a reference dies, the infinite jukebox, a new kind of superhero, how he sleeps on planes, AI is the most boring way to cheat, and how he knows he's having fun writing.instagram.com/j...
2024-07-311h 11
PKDheads PodcastLive Podcast from PKD Fest 2024 - Featuring Jonathan Lethem & Stephen Graham JonesThe 'Not a Book Club Book Club' podcast on PKD, his books, and influence.
We recently went live from the Philip K. Dick Festival in Fort Morgan, CO, along with fellow DickHeads Jonathan Lethem & Stephen Graham Jones. I was at home but had fun in the chat and even managed to get some technical difficulties under control once I realized I could. Enjoy.
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2024-06-281h 08
PKDHeads Podcast BonusLive Podcast from PKD Fest 2024 - Featuring Jonathan Lethem & Stephen Graham Jones
The 'Not a Book Club Book Club' podcast on PKD, his books, and influence.
We recently went live from the Philip K. Dick Festival in Fort Morgan, CO, along with fellow DickHeads Jonathan Lethem & Stephen Graham Jones. I was at home but had fun in the chat and even managed to get some technical difficulties under control once I realized I could. Enjoy.
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2024-06-281h 08
Essential DissentUpstate Anarchist Book Fair - Jonathan LethemSupport Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent
JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, as well as more recent best-sellers, The Feral Detective and The Arrest. Several of his novels have been made into major movies, and his shorter works can often be found in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and many other venues. One of the MacArthur “Genius” grant winners, Lethem is well-known and widely respected for his vivid literary style, sardonic humor, and deep understanding of American culture.
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2024-05-1748 min
Read ThisJonathan Lethem Is Ripping It up and Starting AgainJonathan Lethem made his name with his 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn, but it was his next book, a semi-autobiographical re-telling of his childhood in Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, that solidified his reputation as one of America's most celebrated authors. In Brooklyn Crime Novel, Jonathan returns to the Brooklyn of his childhood, but this time with a very different perspective. This week, Michael and Jonathan discuss making and unmaking the past in his latest book.Reading list:Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem, 1999The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem, 2003Brooklyn Crime Novel, Jonathan Lethem, 2023Edenglassie, Melissa Lucashenko, 2023The Restless Dolly Maunder...
2024-03-2031 min
ApologyJonathan LethemOn this episode of the Apology podcast, host Jesse Pearson welcomes the author Jonathan Lethem to discuss many topics including (but not limited to): Julio Cortázar; animals in literature; paths of entry to the works of Norman Mailer, Philip K. Dick, and Stanisław Lem; Lethem's latest book, Brooklyn Crime Novel; and the class-based, Marxist underpinnings to the creation of literary genres. And more! Much more! Special thanks to this episode's sponsor, Sci-Fi Fantasy.
2024-02-091h 13
Beginningsauthor Jonathan LethemOn today's 14th Anniversary episode, I talk to MacArthur Genius Grant-winning author Jonathan Lethem. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Jonathan at first thought he was going to be a visual artist until some existential realizations about class and art in college in the early 1980s left him disillusioned. He dropped out, hitchhiked to California and started writing while he worked as a clerk in used bookstores. In 1994, Harcourt Brace published his first novel Gun, with Occasional Music, and since then he's written a dozen more - just a sampling: Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, The Feral...
2024-01-261h 10
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novelin the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-0225 min
The Book ClubJonathan Lethem: Brooklyn Crime NovelIn this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by the novelist Jonathan Lethem. Two decades after his breakthrough book The Fortress of Solitude crowned Lethem the literary laureate of Brooklyn, he returns to the borough's never-quite-gentrified streets with the new Brooklyn Crime Novel. He tells me why he felt the need to go back, and talks about race, intimacy, realism, the 'non-fiction novel' – and why he regrets his beef with the critic James Wood.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For mo...
2023-11-0848 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Book Club: Jonathan LethemIn this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by the novelist Jonathan Lethem. Two decades after his breakthrough book The Fortress of Solitude crowned Lethem the literary laureate of Brooklyn, he returns to the borough's never-quite-gentrified streets with the new Brooklyn Crime Novel. He tells me why he felt the need to go back, and talks about race, intimacy, realism, the 'non-fiction novel' – and why he regrets his beef with the critic James Wood.
2023-11-0848 min
fiction/non/fictionS7 Ep. 4: Writing Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and ThenNovelist Jonathan Lethem joins host Whitney Terrell live at the Cider Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. Lethem discusses his new book, Brooklyn Crime Novel, which is set in the neighborhood where he grew up—and where he also set his 2003 novel Fortress of Solitude. They discuss terms like blockbusting and redlining, and the ways that Lethem’s writing explores the ramifications of real estate manipulation on residents of these cities and others around the nation. Lethem reads from Brooklyn Crime Novel and talks about the book’s inventive approach to time.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes...
2023-10-2640 min
fiction/non/fictionWriting Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and ThenNovelist Jonathan Lethem joins host Whitney Terrell live at the Cider Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. Lethem discusses his new book, Brooklyn Crime Novel, which is set in the neighborhood where he grew up—and where he also set his 2003 novel Fortress of Solitude. They discuss terms like blockbusting and redlining, and the ways that Lethem’s writing explores the ramifications of real estate manipulation on residents of these cities and others around the nation. Lethem reads from Brooklyn Crime Novel and talks about the book’s inventive approach to time.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes...
2023-10-2644 min
Discover Thousands of Audiobook Titles with Easy AccessBrooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel : Jonathan LethemPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668026 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Geoffrey Cantor
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 0 minutes
Release date: October 3, 2023
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. “A blistering book. A love story. Social commentary. History. Protest novel. And mystery joins the whole together: is the crime 'time'? Or the almight...
2023-10-041h 00
Poured OverPoured Over Double Shot: Jonathan Lethem and Benjamín Labatut Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel brings readers to New York in the 70s and the cast of characters it contains. Lethem joins us to talk about creating something different than he'd done before, writing memory and nostalgia, the joy of bookselling and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut defies genre with an examination and exploration of science and humanity from the Manhattan Project to the advent of A.I. Labatut joins us to talk about the dark art of writing, the mystery and mythology of existence, the importance of st...
2023-10-031h 35
Chasing LeviathanBrooklyn Crime Novel and the Art of Writing Hardboiled Detectives with Jonathan LethemIn this episode of Chasing Leviathan, PJ and Jonathan Lethem discuss the themes and influences of Lethem's latest book, Brooklyn Crime Novel, as well as the process of writing hardboiled detective fiction.For a deep dive into Jonathan Lethem's work, check out his book: Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSFSN49G/Check out our blog on www.candidgoatproductions.com Who thinks that they can subdue Leviathan? Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it. When it rises up, the mighty are terrified. Nothing on earth is its equal. It...
2023-10-0353 min
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveBrooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel by Jonathan LethemPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel Author: Jonathan Lethem Narrator: Geoffrey Cantor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. “A blistering book. A love story. Social commentary. History. Protest novel. And mystery joins the whole together: is the crime 'time'? Or the almighty dollar? I got a great laugh from it...
2023-10-0305 min
Slate BooksWorking: Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan LethemThis week, Isaac talks to author and returning guest Jonathan Lethem! In the interview, Jonathan discusses his brand new book, Brooklyn Crime Novel, which revisits themes and settings that Jonathan engaged with in his previous works, Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn. This time, Jonathan uses unusual storytelling tactics–like characters without names and chapters that vary wildly in length–to rediscover the Brooklyn of his youth. After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas talk about why great artists often return to the same material over and over. In the...
2023-10-0145 min
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2023-09-0100 min
Upper MiddlebrowBig Tank! Big NUCLEAR Tank! Jonathan Lethem's "The Arrest" Part 1Jonathan Lethem imagines not so much an apocalypse, but a kind of slow pause of most (but not all) advanced technologies, he calls “The Arrest”. Dukes and Bagg find the scenario fascinating and are not much troubled by the lack of a scientific explanation. Bagg IS troubled by the first sentence, (an important one) and Dukes wonders if our protagonist will manage to do a thing (anything!) in the book’s second half.
2023-04-031h 18
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New YorkerJonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”Jonathan Lethem reads his story “Narrowing Valley,” which appeared in the October 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lethem’s books of fiction include the story collection “Lucky Alan and Other Stories” and the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published in 2020.
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2022-10-2423 min
The VaultJonathan Lethem on Fair UseIn April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. At it, the novelist Jonathan Lethem made a presentation on his essay-in-progress, the final version of which would be published as The Ecstasy of Influence, in the February 2007 issue of Harper’s magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-03-1052 min
Acts & FactsJonathan LethemJonathan Lethem tells Richard about his eight talismanic books and also talks about obscure heroes, his love of the search, growing up in the era of New York's "dystopian abandonment," and what he learned from watching his father paint.
2022-01-151h 19
AWM Author TalksEpisode 78: Jonathan Lethem & Stacie WilliamsThis week, tune into a conversation between Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude, and Stacie Williams, whose book Bizarro Worlds references Lethem’s characters and storylines to explore racism and gentrification. This conversation originally took place March 15th, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.
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2021-12-2033 min
The Archive ProjectBook of Revelations: Rumaan Alam & Jonathan Lethem (Rebroadcast)In this episode, we feature a conversation between novelists Rumaan Alam and Jonathan Lethem from the 2020 Portland Book Festival.
There is a rich tradition of the apocalyptic novel. As Alam and Lethem touch on, the urgency in this tradition allows writers to explore what really matters to their characters, and asks what we will keep and what we will forget when push comes to shove. The scope of these works range from, as Lethem says, “wide screen” narratives of entire societies being transformed, to the more intimate stories of how individuals, relationships, and families are shaped by thes...
2021-10-2554 min
SongWriter turns stories into songsJonathan Lethem + Tift MerrittDuring a live online performance, bestselling author Jonathan Lethem reads from his recent “dystopian pastoral” novel, The Arrest, about a farming community dealing with the worldwide collapse of technology. Jonathan also speaks about his long history of writing lyrics for bands including They Might Be Giants and the Silos. Songwriter Tift Merritt shares a studio recording of a song called “Asylum in a Mad, Mad World” that she wrote in response to the story, but also reflecting the history of a former asylum in her hometown.https://SongWriterPodcast.com/Jonathan-Lethem-Tift-MerrittTwitter.com/SnogWriterInstagram.com/SongWrit...
2021-09-2121 min
the drax files radio hourshow #306: jonathan lethem enters yet another world!jonathan lethem in the house, again, as yellow duck [as we find out the reason is hidden in plain sight of his story “forever, said the duck” from “the wall of the sky, the wall of the eye”]. we discuss “they live”, the great 80s movie by marxist scholar john carpenter, we find out about... Read More
2021-05-1000 minpodcast – the drax files radio hourshow #306: jonathan lethem enters yet another world!jonathan lethem in the house, again, as yellow duck [as we find out the reason is hidden in plain sight of his story “forever, said the duck” from “the wall of the sky, the wall of the eye”]. we discuss “they live”, the great 80s movie by marxist scholar john carpenter, we find out about... Read More
2021-05-1000 minThe Archive ProjectBook of Revelations: Rumaan Alam & Jonathan LethemIn this episode, we feature a conversation between novelists Rumaan Alam and Jonathan Lethem from the 2020 Portland Book Festival.
There is a rich tradition of the apocalyptic novel. As Alam and Lethem touch on, the urgency in this tradition allows writers to explore what really matters to their characters, and asks what we will keep and what we will forget when push comes to shove. The scope of these works range from, as Lethem says, “wide screen” narratives of entire societies being transformed, to the more intimate stories of how individuals, relationships, and families are shaped by thes...
2021-03-0854 minThe New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New YorkerJonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the March 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published last year.
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2021-03-0234 min
WorkingNovelist Jonathan Lethem Likes to Be Surprised by His Own StoriesThis week, host Isaac Butler talks to novelist Jonathan Lethem about daily writing rituals, teaching writing, and the process behind Jonathan’s latest novel, The Arrest, which imagines a world where most advanced technology stops working. After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas discuss the improvisational way that Jonathan plots out his novels. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Jonathan talks about how he managed to find time to write when he was a young aspiring novelist working full-time jobs that didn’t involve writing. He also talks about a recent piece of Zoom theate...
2021-01-1750 minWorkingNovelist Jonathan Lethem Likes to Be Surprised by His Own StoriesThis week, host Isaac Butler talks to novelist Jonathan Lethem about daily writing rituals, teaching writing, and the process behind Jonathan’s latest novel, The Arrest, which imagines a world where most advanced technology stops working. After the interview, Isaac and co-host June Thomas discuss the improvisational way that Jonathan plots out his novels. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Jonathan talks about how he managed to find time to write when he was a young aspiring novelist working full-time jobs that didn’t involve writing. He also talks about a recent piece of Zoom theate...
2021-01-1746 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingJonathan LethemJonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Arrest is his twelfth novel. He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-12-071h 05
Full Contact Nerd InterviewsJonathan Lethem interview about his latest science fiction novel “The Arrest” (Ecco, 2020)Jonathan Lethem interview about his latest science fiction novel “The Arrest” Check out this book here https://amzn.to/32Mys8m Interview Timeline Jonathan Lethem is a prolific short story and novel writer. He’s written eleven novels and his…Read More
2020-11-1546 min
BookloversJonathan Lethem & Thomas PynchonIt’s our tenth episode! We’re celebrating by discussing Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. We focus on the in-over-their-heads heroes of both novels, Lionel Essrog and Oedipa Maas, as they try to do right by people who had past impact on them. Despite seeming disparate at the outset, both novels feature mysteries and seedy underbellies, big city semi-noir vibes, and plenty of conspiracy to go around.
2020-11-021h 38
BookLovers: A Podcast from Spartanburg County Public LibrariesJonathan Lethem & Thomas PynchonIt’s our tenth episode! We’re celebrating by discussing Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. We focus on the in-over-their-heads heroes of both novels, Lionel Essrog and Oedipa Maas, as they try to do right by people who had past impact on them. Despite seeming disparate at the outset, both novels feature mysteries and seedy underbellies, big city semi-noir vibes, and plenty of conspiracy to go around.
2020-11-011h 38The Archive ProjectJonathan Lethem (Rebroadcast)This episode of The Archive Project, features a lecture from prolific author Jonathan Lethem from 2007. As a writer, Lethem melds genres, often mixing crime and sci-fi with more traditional fiction. He is also known for his unpretentious incorporation of American pop-culture into his works. In this lecture, Lethem’s dry humor, sincerity, literary allusions, and post-modern sensibility are on full display as he discusses what has shaped him as a writer, including growing up in New York during the 70s, and the tragic loss of his mother when he was just fourteen years old. He also speaks to the de...
2020-09-0252 min
Well Read with Justin ChapmanEp. 109: Jonathan LethemEp. 9 features an interview with author Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Arrest, The Feral Detective, Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, Fortress of Solitude, A Gambler's Anatomy, As She Climbed Across the Table, The Ecstasy of Influence, and many others. Watch the video version of "Well Read" on YouTube. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justinchapman.substack.com
2020-07-2927 min
Well Read with Justin ChapmanEp. 109: Jonathan LethemEp. 9 features an interview with author Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Arrest, The Feral Detective, Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, Fortress of Solitude, A Gambler's Anatomy, As She Climbed Across the Table, The Ecstasy of Influence, and many others. Watch the video version of "Well Read" on YouTube.
2020-07-2927 minThe New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New YorkerJonathan Lethem Reads “The Afterlife”Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the May 18, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, including “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Gambler’s Anatomy,” and “The Feral Detective.” A new novel, “The Arrest,” will be published later this year.
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2020-05-1220 min
Showtime at the SenateShowtime at the Senate: Episode 8 - They Live (1988) with author Jonathan LethemShowtime at the Senate has returned!
Before quarantine and the COVID-19 virus hit, we planned on screening John Carpenter's They Live (1988) on Saturday, March 28th. The screening is postponed for now, but before all this mayhem hit, I had on award winning novelist Jonathan Lethem on the show to talk about They Live and the Deep Focus book he wrote on the film back in 2010. (available here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/They-Live-Focus-Jonathan-Lethem/dp/159376278X)
We talk about his experience with the film, why we enjoy watching it so much, Reaganomics, consumer capitalism and o...
2020-03-2517 min
Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking DylanJonathan LethemOn the BobPhone from the USA: it’s award-winning writer Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, with a supremely quotable episode. On his “Big Kahuna” interview of Bob for Rolling Stone: “he was direct and generous; we had a good time”. An advocate for Dylan’s latter-day stuff, he believes that “humour is underrated as a feature of the operation”.Among Jonathan’s many provocative thoughts: “The power of (Dylan’s) negativity is a form of creative dynamism” and “how many people could have turned down the coronations he’s been offered”? He praises the “fiasco methodology” of Under The Red Sky, has mixed feeli...
2019-12-1547 min
SongWriter turns stories into songsJonathan Lethem + Cindy Lee Berryhill (Bonus Episode!)Novelist and MacArthur "Genius Grant" award-winner Jonathan Lethem reads his story "Vivian Relf," and songwriter Cindy Lee Berryhill performs a song written in response.https://SongWriterPodcast.comTwitter.com/SnogWriterInstagram.com/SongWriterPodcastFacebook.com/SongWriterPodcast
2019-11-2637 min
綠火貓三Ep. 2 (2019/11/11): Lucia Berlin, 劉紹華, Jonathan Lethem 綠火閒聊「最近讀的書」，稍微有點超過自己設定的時間限制（30分鐘）的第二集 XD
今天講：
Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise（這本目前沒有中譯，但同作者的前一本作品有，書名為《清潔女工手記》）
劉紹華 -《人類學活在我的眼睛與血管裡》
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn（中譯本書名為《布魯克林孤兒》）
2019-11-1035 minThe New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New YorkerJonathan Lethem Reads "The Starlet Apartments"Jonathan Lethem reads his short story from the March 4, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, including the novels "The Fortress of Solitude," "A Gambler's Anatomy," and "The Feral Detective," which was published last year.
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2019-02-2632 min
The SteerNovelist Jonathan LethemAcclaimed author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude) talks about making art while the world is on fire, writing female characters, his life-long love of music, and of course, his newest book, The Feral Detective, published by Harper Collins.
The music played during our interview was taken from Lethem’s list of music for his novel from the always excellent Large Hearted Boy.
Further music writing by Jonathan Lethem:
Jonathan Lethem on the Music of his Life
Being James Brown
The Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan...
2018-12-181h 52
So Many Damn Books103: Jonathan Lethem (THE FERAL DETECTIVE) & Sei Shōnagon's THE PILLOW BOOKJonathan Lethem drops into the Damn Library and the guys are damn excited to have him. They talk about Lethem's new one, The Feral Detective, of course, but they also talk about his work as a whole, and how his books are in conversation with each other, along with a tangent into timeliness and how lucky he feels. Then they get into Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book, a classic unclassifiable Japanese work, began in the year 990. Translation conversation, and what a "pillow book" is, ensues. One for the ages!contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb
2018-12-1156 min
Harper Audio PresentsJonathan Lethem and Zosia Mamet on THE FERAL DETECTIVEActress and narrator Zosia Mamet takes over hosting duties this week, interviewing author Jonathan Lethem about his latest novel THE FERAL DETECTIVE.
Stick around after the interview, as we give you a sneak peak of the audiobook, with Zosia narrating!
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2018-11-1100 min
Enjoy Selection of Full Audiobooks in Fiction & Literature, GeneralFeral Detective: A Novel - Jonathan LethemListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Feral Detective: A NovelAuthor: Jonathan LethemNarrator: Zosia MametFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8:54:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 11-06-2018Publisher: HarperAudioGenres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Detective StoriesSummary:Jonathan Lethem’s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn
“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” —Washington Post
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daught...
2018-11-068h 54
Get Latest Free Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Feral Detective: A Novel by Jonathan LethemPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Feral Detective: A Novel Author: Jonathan Lethem Narrator: Zosia Mamet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 4 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Jonathan Lethem’s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn “One of America’s greatest storytellers.” —Washington Post Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk draw...
2018-11-0605 min
Think Again - a Big Think PodcastJonathan Lethem (writer) – Batman's Greatest EnemyThere’s a famous line from a Bob Dylan song that goes “she’s got everything she needs...she’s an artist...she don’t look back.”
As a person who loves art—music and literature especially—I’ve always been haunted by that line. Does an artist really not look back? Is looking back somehow a threat to creativity? What about Proust? Did he ever look anywhere but back?
My guest today is Jonathan Lethem, one of my very favorite writers since I read his early novel Fortress of Solitude. He’s also the author of Motherless Brooklyn, Dissident Gardens and much more...
2018-05-1957 min
Past ForwardJonathan LethemA live recording of our educational podcast The How, The Why with Jonathan Lethem. Jonathan Lethem is the author of ten novels, including The Fortress of Solitude, Girl In Landscape, and A Gambler’s Anatomy. His fifth, Motherless Brooklyn, won The National Book Critic’s Circle Award. In 2005 he was named a Fellow of the Macarthur Foundation. His stories and essays have been collected in five volumes and his writing has been translated into over thirty languages. He’s the Roy E. Disney ’51 Chair in Creative Writing at Pomona College, and lives in Claremont and Maine. Photo: Adrian Cook The How, The Why...
2018-05-1055 min
Past ForwardJonathan LethemToday we're connected with Jonathan Lethem, author of novels such as Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage) and Fortress of Solitude (Vintage), novellas such as This Shape We're In (McSweeney's), short story collections such as Lucky Alan and Other Stories (Doubleday), and nonfiction books such as They Live (Softskull Press) and Talking Heads' Fear of Music (Bloomsbury Academic); editor of books suck as The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and The Vintage Book of Amnesia (Vintage); Roy E. Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College; and MacArthur Fellow. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host...
2018-03-0534 min
The Not-So-Silent PlanetJONATHAN LETHEM: The Not-So-Silent Planet Ep 18 with Matt AllexComedian and podcaster Matt Allex returns to discuss the intersection of hard-boiled detective fiction and mind-altering substances in Jonathan Lethem, then continues digging at memory and identity in a new short story involving a shapeshifter with Alzheimer’s.
2018-02-1300 min
Sound Opinions#628 Rock Criticism with Jonathan Lethem, Mavis Staples & BjörkHosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot indulge this week in a deep look at their own profession: rock criticism. They're joined by novelist Jonathan Lethem, co-editor of a new anthology of rock criticism, who makes the case for music journalism as great American writing. Plus, they look at the life and career of legendary critic Lester Bangs and review new albums from Chicago gospel legend Mavis Staples and Icelandic multimedia artist Björk.
2017-12-0858 minThe Archive ProjectJonathan Lethem, Helen Phillips & Dana SpiottaThis episode features authors Jonathan Lethem, Helen Phillips, and Dana Spiotta as they discuss the presence of the fantastic or strange in their work. In The Gambler’s Anatomy, Jonathan Lethem tells the story of Bruno Alexander, an international backgammon hustler who believes he’s psychic. Helen Phillips’s short story collection, Some Possible Solutions, takes us through a series what-ifs and dystopias in which Phillips’s characters struggle to develop meaningful relationships amidst the chaos. Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others is the story of Meadow, Carrie, and Jelly, three women grappling with questions of art, ethics, and intimacy i...
2017-11-0252 min
Martin Bandyke Under Covers | Ann Arbor District LibraryMartin Bandyke Under Covers: Martin talks to Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar, editors of Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z.Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince...
2017-09-0626 min
So Many Damn Books73: Backlist: Jonathan Lethem (*Motherless Brooklyn")Without a guest, the guys make good on their TMN Tournament of Books bet- Drew chose Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn. They talk about what matters in a noir, Lethem tackling Tourette's, and enjoying a book about where you live, amongst other subjects. Also: Patreon listener recommendations!contribute: patreon.com/smdbdrink lists, book lists, and more: somanydamnbooks.com15 seconds of a song: Lounger - Dogs Die in Hot Cars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-08-2928 min
Skylight Books Podcast SeriesJONATHAN LETHEM DISCUSSES HIS BOOK MORE ALIVE AND LESS LONELY, WITH JARETT KOBEKMore Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville House Publishing)
A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem’s finest writing on the subject of writers and writing.
A readerly wake-up call from one of America’s finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem’s finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appeals for forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp essays, and personal acco...
2017-08-0458 min
Living in the USARick Perlstein: Another Bad Day for Donald Trump--plus Jonathan Lethem on Dylan & Larry Tye on RFKEvery day seems to be a bad news day for the President -- today, yesterday, the day before. . . Rick Perlstein comments.
plus Jonathan Lethem on Bob Dylan's Nobel speech and "Great American Writing on Rock"
and Larry Tye on "Bobby Kennedy: The making of a liberal icon"
2017-06-1649 min
10 Minute Writer's WorkshopWorkshop 35: Jonathan LethemJonathan Lethem is the best-selling author of Gun, with Occasional Music, Fortress of Solitude, and other novels, including the Naitonal Book Critics' Circle award-winning Motherless Brooklyn. He's known for reanimating and remixing genres - hard-boiled crime novels, post-apocalyptic science fiction, superhero comics and even technicolor westerns. His most recent novel is called A Gambler's Anatomy. It's about a high-stakes competitive backgammon player and con artist - a character who, like Lethem, was raised in the bohemian Brooklyn of the 1970s.
Episode music: "Crate Diggin" by Ari de Niro
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2017-01-1111 min
OPB's State of WonderDec. 31: Richard Russo, Nikki McClure, Jonathan Lethem & Karen Russell at WordstockWe love talking to authors about their books, but do you know what’s almost more fun? Talking to them about other people's books. This year, at the book festival Wordstock, we rounded up some amazing writers and illustrators on the OPB Pop-Up Stage to ask them: was there a book that changed your life?Richard Russo - 1:24The books of Richard Russo are practically synonymous with small town American life. They tell stories of working-class folks in falling-down mill towns in upstate New York, but they could take place practically anywhere in the U.S. Ru...
2016-12-2853 min
KaleidocastEpisode 12: "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" by Jonathan Lethem: PART 2Jonathan Lethem, Author of Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom
Jonathan Lethem is the author of Dissident Gardens and eight other novels. His fiction and essays have been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine. For more information, check out Jonathanlethem.com.
Tatiana Gomberg as Narrator and Harriet:
Narrator and Tatiana Gomberg is a New York City based actress and audiobook narrator. She has performed Off and Off- Off Broadway as well as regionally and internationally. Her work in The Night of Nosferatu garnered her an NYIT award nomination for Best Featured Actress and her portrayal of...
2016-05-181h 04
KaleidocastEpisode 11: "Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" by Jonathan Lethem: PART 1Jonathan Lethem, Author of Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom
Jonathan Lethem is the author of Dissident Gardens and eight other novels. His fiction and essays have been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine. For more information, check out Jonathanlethem.com.
Tatiana Gomberg as Narrator and Harriet:
Narrator and Tatiana Gomberg is a New York City based actress and audiobook narrator. She has performed Off and Off- Off Broadway as well as regionally and internationally. Her work in The Night of Nosferatu garnered her an NYIT award nomination for Best Featured Actress and her portrayal of...
2016-05-0444 minThe Archive ProjectJonathan LethemThis episode of The Archive Project, features a lecture from prolific author Jonathan Lethem from 2007. As a writer, Lethem melds genres, often mixing crime and sci-fi with more traditional fiction. He is also known for his unpretentious incorporation of American pop-culture into his works. In this lecture, Lethem’s dry humor, sincerity, literary allusions, and post-modern sensibility are on full display as he discusses what has shaped him as a writer, including growing up in New York during the 70s, and the tragic loss of his mother when he was just fourteen years old. He also speaks to the de...
2016-03-1750 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowEp. 45: Jonathan Lethem on "Old" New York, "They Live", and the Culture of Disreputability Jonathan Lethem is the featured guest on this week's installment of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the author of many award winning books including Dissident Gardens, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn. Jonathan conducted a master class and did some wonderful sharing about the culture of disreputability, the movie They Live, race and class, generational politics, and shared some stories about growing up in a pre-Disneyfied New York City. This episode also features a conversation with psychologist Dr. David Reiss about the loss of the great and amazing...
2015-06-252h 18
Book Slam PodcastBook Slam Podcast 65 (with Laura Groves, Jonathan Lethem and Dominic Frisby)The 65th Book Slam Podcast is chock full of fascinating content undermined by some rather low rent banter and lousy production. Sorry. Guests include the brilliant JONATHAN LETHEM, reading from and discussing 'Dissident Gardens', DOMINIC FRISBY describing 'Life After The State' and fabulous music from LAURA GROVES. Elliott's just been for a run, Patrick turns up his nose.
2014-07-1339 min
Front Row: Archive 2014The Bridge stars, Jonathan Lethem, RS ThomasJonathan Lethem talks about his latest novel Dissident Gardens. It's an epic family novel criss-crossing generations from the '50s to the present day, focussing on Rose, an American Communist. Based on his own upbringing and radical grandmother, Lethem describes how even as a youngster he guessed he'd never be able to stand for President, as there surely would have been a 'problem with my files'.This weekend the final two episodes of The Bridge are screened on BBC4. The series, which has spawned many international remakes, follows a Swedish and a Danish detective working on a...
2014-01-3128 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastJonathan Lethem: Dissident Gardens'The past is a mosaic; we make it out of present materials.'Jonathan Lethem’s latest book Dissident Gardens (Cape) tells, in a ‘torrent of potent voices, searing ironies, popculture allusions, and tragicomic complexities’ the story of three generations of a radical New York family, at the same time painting a vivid portrait of the American Century. Jonathan Lethem was in conversation with Benjamin Markovits, author of A Quiet Adjustment and named by Granta as one of their Best Young British Novelists of 2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2014-01-291h 13
Saturday ReviewKing Lear, Llewyn Davis, Jonathan LethemThe role of King Lear is famously difficult - by the time an actor reaches an age where he has the gravitas, he may be too old to cope with the physical and emotional demands. Simon Russell Beale plays Shakespeare's monarch in the latest production at The National Theatre in London, but - at 52 years old - is he too young to be playing an old, deranged king?
Inside Llewyn Davis is The Coen Brothers look at the folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village, just before Bob Dylan came along and the world took notice. Following the...
2014-01-2541 min
VICE PodcastJonathan Lethem on Radical Politics in America: VICE Podcast 020The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion that goes inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.
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2013-10-2459 minVICEJonathan Lethem on Radical Politics in America: VICE Podcast 020The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion that goes inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.
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2013-10-2459 min
VICE MeetsJonathan Lethem on Radical Politics in America: VICE Podcast 020The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion that goes inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2013-10-2459 min
The New Yorker: FictionJonathan Lethem Reads V. S. PritchettOn this month's fiction podcast, Jonathan Lethem reads "The Rescue," by V. S. Pritchett, which was first published in The New Yorker in 1973 and can be found in Pritchett's "Complete Collected Stories." (Lethem's most recent fiction in the magazine, "The Gray Goose," was excerpted from his new novel, "Dissident Gardens.") In his discussion with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, Lethem says that Pritchett is a "total sorcerer," a writer who lets readers into a world that seems stable and then "pulls the rug out from under" them, changing where the story is going and what they think...
2013-10-0344 min
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryJonathan Lethem : Dissident GardensJonathan Lethem is a man of many lives. For one, because of his repeated return to New York as both setting and muse in novels such as Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City, he may be New York’s closest thing to having a bard. But Lethem is known as well for his genre fiction, his hard-boiled detective and science fiction books, his revival of the Marvel comic Omega the Unknown, and for editing the Library of America’s four-volume edition of Philip K. Dick’s novels. Yet another side of Jonathan Lethem is that of essayist on mus...
2013-10-0236 min
The Dinner Party DownloadEpisode 218: Jonathan Lethem, Alt-J, and the Fab Four’s FredaThis week: Jonathan Lethem goes to New Jersey … Alt-J are kind of over triangles at this point … The Beatles’ secretary gives a peek into music history … Restaurant trends, from bars to bathrooms … Astronaut agriculture … Miss Manners is not telling you to lie, boast, and start rumbles … A tempest in […]
2013-09-1450 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaDissident Gardens: A Novel by Jonathan LethemPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dissident Gardens: A Novel Author: Jonathan Lethem Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of h...
2013-09-1010 minThe Dinner Party DownloadEpisode 122: Sir Richard Branson, Jonathan Lethem, and Masters of EtiquetteThis week, Sir Richard Branson drops the ‘sir’ for us… writer Jonathan Lethem squeezes Gertrude Stein, Jack Kerouac, and Drew Barrymore into a hot tub…. why we wanted our MTV… the (non-Portland) trailblazer of b-ball backboard-breaking… “Extreme Makeover: Urban Food Store Edition”… and iconic singer-songwriter Judy Collins muses on being a muse.
2011-11-0851 min
The Faber Books Podcast: Authors in Their Own WordsThe Faber Podcast 16: Jonathan Lethem & Peter CareyAmerica looms large in the new novels by Jonathan Lethem and Peter Carey, the interviewees in February 2010's Faber Podcast. George Miller discusses modern-day Manhattan - both real and unreal - as portrayed by Lethem in Chronic City, a book rich in metaphors. Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America goes back a couple of centuries, but as Carey makes clear, there are clear parallels between an America in its infancy and today's state of affairs.
2011-04-0642 minFaberBooksThe Faber Podcast 16: Jonathan Lethem & Peter CareyAmerica looms large in the new novels by Jonathan Lethem and Peter Carey, the interviewees in February 2010's Faber Podcast. George Miller discusses modern-day Manhattan - both real and unreal - as portrayed by Lethem in Chronic City, a book rich in metaphors. Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America goes back a couple of centuries, but as Carey makes clear, there are clear parallels between an America in its infancy and today's state of affairs.
2011-04-0642 min
FaberBooksJonathan Lethem: Chronic CityRecorded in January 2010, when he paid a visit to Faber's offices in London, Brooklyn author Jonathan Lethem spoke to us about his new novel, Chronic City.
2011-04-0631 min
Talk to MeTalk to Me: Patti Smith Chats with Jonathan LethemTurns out, Jonathan Lethem has been a fan of Patti Smith's music since he was hanging out at CBGB as a tween. In their talk from this year's PEN World Voices Festival, the two writers discussed their love of books, punk music, and New York City in its grittier days. The East Village these days is a far cry from being edgy, neither author seemed to have lost the punk-fueled passion they had when they were teenagers.
2010-05-0756 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastChronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthyIn conversation with the novelist Tom McCarthy, Jonathan Lethem read from Chronic City and discussed, inter alia, Manhattan's virtuality, the inspiration behind the character of Perkus Tooth, the price of things, and talking animals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2010-01-071h 00KQED: The Writers' BlockJonathan Lethem: Chronic CityJonathan Lethem reads a passage from CHRONIC CITY, his new novel about a former child actor who meets an unusual friend in a man named Perkus Tooth.
2009-11-0300 minKQED: The Writers' BlockJonathan Lethem: Chronic CityJonathan Lethem reads a passage from CHRONIC CITY, his new novel about a former child actor who meets an unusual friend in a man named Perkus Tooth.
2009-11-0300 minThe New Yorker: FictionJonathan Lethem Reads James ThurberJonathan Lethem reads James Thurber's short story "The Wood Duck" and discusses Thurber with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
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2008-03-0318 min
Get New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenYou Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel by Jonathan LethemPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel Author: Jonathan Lethem Narrator: Jonathan Lethem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 13, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists on speaking only to...
2007-03-1310 min