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:
Interview with Electric Lit
Jonathan Lethem’s Expat Twilight Zone
Talking fathers, mind-readers & anarchist hamburger joints with the author of the new novel, A Gambler’s Anatomy
Interview with Electric Lit.
Interview With Powell’s Books
“I feel so cruel when I talk about the things I’ve done to this character.”
Interview with Powell’s Books, Inc. about A GAMBLER’S ANATOMY.
Interview with Flood Magazine
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude on the inspiration behind A Gambler’s Anatomy.
Interview with Flood Magazine.
