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Tom Glynn’s unpublished prison novel

January 23, 2019 By JL

My old friend wrote one of the great white whales that got away.

 

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: archive, Dannemora, Thomas Glynn, unfinished novel

Me and Dyer talk about Eagles

January 18, 2019 By JL

We’re both in the habit of writing short books about single films. We’ll talk about this in Los Angeles at Skylight.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Clint Eastwood, Geoff Dyer, Richard Burton, Skylight Books, Where Eagles Dare

Let the Memories Drive

January 3, 2019 By JL

I remember Bowman.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Big Bang, Cathryn Alpert, David Bowman, Dylan, Let the Dog Drive

The Brown Acid

January 1, 2019 By JL

I decided to survey all the fictional drugs invented by people other than myself and Philip K. Dick.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: David Means, Deborah Eisenberg, Delillo, drugs, Lethem, Moshfegh, New York Times, Philip K. Dick

Musicsplaining

December 18, 2018 By JL

Here I go again, nailing it all down for you! This was a fun conversation, part of a great visit to Portland.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: feral, KBOO, Portland, songs

Oeuvre, Emojied

November 29, 2018 By JL

One might quibble with the rankings, but first bow down to the emoji work.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: emojis, Lethem, novels, rankings

I remember the dB’s.

November 21, 2018 By JL

Do you?

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: dB's, Hoboken, North Carolina, Oxford American Music Issue, post-punk

I found another excuse to do what Frank Zappa called “Dancing about architecture”.

November 7, 2018 By JL

Some songs that have to do with the Feral Detective, at least in my mind.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Father John Misty, Johnny Nash, Largehearted Boy, Leonard Cohen, The Feral Detective, The Mekons

Bizarro Worlds by Stacie Williams

November 6, 2018 By JL

I want to read this.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Chicago, Gentrification, Stacie Williams, The Fortress of Solitude

I worry a lot about conspiracies

November 5, 2018 By JL

This essay is my crazy wall.

 

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: conspiracy, Crazy Wall, Global Warming, Metropolitan Museum, Paris Review, Philip K. Dick

Feral is going to Germany.

November 3, 2018 By JL

It’s getting Wilde.

Filed Under: Literature Tagged With: Der Wilde Detektiv, Feral Detective, Germany

LETHEM movie in Houston

October 30, 2018 By JL

They’re showing it in Houston, the evening before I read at Inprint. I’ll be there.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Fred Barney Taylor, Houston, LETHEM documentary

Oxford American Southern Music Issue

October 29, 2018 By JL

I wrote about the rock band called The dB’s for the new North Carolina edition of the Oxford American Southern Music Issue.

 

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: dB's, Hoboken, North Carolina, Oxford American, rock 'n' roll

Some Coverage from the Inland Empire

October 29, 2018 By JL

Local institutions Pomona College and the Daily Bulletin are proud of me. I’m grateful.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: claremont, feral, inland empire, pomona, upland

Teaching Unteachable Books

October 22, 2018 By JL

At the AWP Conference in Portland March 27-30, 2019, I’ll be on a panel called “Teaching Unteachable Books”

Filed Under: Dialogues, Literature Tagged With: AWP

Lethem avatar meets young Donald Trump

October 22, 2018 By JL

Lethem avatar Harris Conklin recollects going to Shea Stadium with a young Donald Trump in this new book by David Shields.

Filed Under: Literature Tagged With: David Shields, Fuck Trump

Howl, Charlie Brown

October 22, 2018 By JL

I reworked Allen Ginsburg’s “Howl” using language from Charlie Brown and Snoopy and friends for the upcoming anthology The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life.

Filed Under: Appreciations, Essays, Popular Culture Tagged With: Charles Shultz, Charlie Brown, Peanuts

Photos of Dylan

October 22, 2018 By JL

In Jerry Schatzberg’s new book of Dylan photographs, the text consists of a series of written exchanges between me and Schatzberg.

Filed Under: Art, Dialogues Tagged With: Dylan. Photography, Schatzberg

Lit Camp Counseling

October 22, 2018 By JL

I’m one of the counselors at Lit Camp, at Esalen this year.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Lit Camp. Esalen

Roslyn Drexler’s BAD GUY

October 22, 2018 By JL

I wrote a (short) introduction to help reintroduce Roslyn Drexler’s BAD GUY

Filed Under: Appreciations, Essays Tagged With: New York City, Pop Art, Roslyn Drexler

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