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Oct 2013
36m 47s

Jonathan Lethem : Dissident Gardens

David Naimon, Tin House Books
About this episode
Jonathan 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 […] 
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