Podcast Episodes featuring Jonathan Lethem

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148. Jonathan Lethem (writer) – Batman's Greatest Enemy

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - May 19, 2018 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
There’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 t...

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#628 Rock Criticism with Jonathan Lethem, Mavis Staples & Björk

Sound Opinions - December 08, 2017 00:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Hosts 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 th...

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"Rolling the Dice" with Lindy West, Jonathan Lethem, Emma Straub, and Blitzen Trapper

Live Wire with Luke Burbank - November 14, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
Lindy West shares why she keeps speaking up on the internet despite her better judgment, Jonathan Lethem explains why he only plays poker with college professors, Emma Straub reveals why she believes her first four novels were (deservedly) rejected, and Blitzen Trapper does us right wit...

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226. Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler's Anatomy

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - October 22, 2016 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 875 ratings
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....

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Jonathan Lethem, “A Gambler’s Anatomy” (Doubleday, 2016)

New Books Network - October 21, 2016 18:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel, A Gambler’s Anatomy (Doubleday, 2016), traces the existential crisis of an international backgammon hustler who thinks he’s psychic and who, while plying his trade in Berlin, discovers a rare kind of tumor growing behind his face. His search for a physical cure, se...

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1538: A 2013 Interview with Jonathan Lethem

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - October 13, 2013 21:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"...we resist thinking about these things, and then suddenly it will become quite urgent figure it out, wait, where do I come from..."

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Episode 212 — Jonathan Lethem

Otherppl with Brad Listi - September 29, 2013 08:08 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 448 ratings
Jonathan Lethem is the guest. His latest novel, Dissident Gardens, is now available from Doubleday.  The Los Angeles Times raves "Lethem is as ambitious as Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth and as stinging as Bob Dylan...Dissident Gardens shows Lethem in full possession of his powers as a novelist,...

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1204: A 2011 Interview with Jonathan Lethem

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - December 26, 2011 03:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"I'm amazed to be taken so seriously as I am."

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864: A 2009 Interview With Jonathan Lethem

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - April 05, 2010 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"The future doesn't arrive and replace the past, it just piles up alongside it."

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150: A 2007 Interview With Jonathan Lethem

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - April 23, 2007 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"You have to be a fake before you can be real"

Books written by Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem

7 Episodes - 528 pages - ★★★★ - 16.4K ratings

As She Climbed Across the Table
Jonathan Lethem

1 Episode - 224 pages - ★★★★ - 4.37K ratings

The Disappointment Artist
Jonathan Lethem

149 pages - ★★★★ - 1.59K ratings

McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Michael Chabon, Mike Mignola, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ayelet Waldman, Steve Erickson, Stephen King, Jason Roberts, Heidi Julavits, Roddy Doyle, Daniel Handler, Charles D'Ambrosio, Poppy Z. Brite, China Miéville, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, McSweeney's Publishing

328 pages - ★★★★ - 939 ratings