This Andrew Rowcroft knows a thing or two.
Andrew Rowcroft on Dissident Gardens
Chronic City thanks Chronic City
A movie called LETHEM
http://metrograph.com/film/film/1022/lethem
This is intriguing, and possibly awkward. A film about him, who is me. He/I looks stressed out in that still from the Metrograph website. Is the film unauthorized? Come and find out.
We like this.
We’re thankful, Mr. Wood.
http://quarterlyconversation.com/zipping-up-the-elephant-suit-jonathan-lethems-latest-quartet
Cluuuuuute!
No knock on anyone else, but until you’ve been read by John Clute you might not have been read at all.
Talking With Kleffel About Talking With Rickels
I always look forward to seeing Rick Kleffel in San Francisco. It’s one of the best conversations a writer on book tour could hope for, and he and I have been carrying it on intermittently for two decades now.
Resistance.
My piece on the wake of the election, from the LRB:
The LRB “Diary” piece, possibly going behind a paywall.
It compared our current situation to a Philip K. Dick novel, among other things.
Then I added a postscript, here:
My archive at Yale
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the dayshift.
Thirty years of vomiting cats and they put you in the Beinecke Library.
This makes me happy. Thank you Bushwick Book Club.
The Secret History Of Everything
If the first paragraph of this article were the start of an Adam Curtis film, it would begin with a flat, declarative statement. Something like: “This is a film about a curious afternoon in the summer of 2016, when an American novelist pretending to be a journalist went to meet a British journalist who wanted nothing to do with being called an artist.”
My profile of British Documentarian Adam Curtis
New York Times
Watch HyperNormalisation here:
