Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem

jonathanlethem.com
6 Followers
22 Interviews
Jonathan Lethem is both a fiction and a non-fiction writer, best known for his novels "Motherless Brooklyn," "The Fortress of Solitude," and "Chronic City."

Jonathan Lethem's Interviews

Jonathan Lethem 31 Jul 2024 • EN

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is a writer from New York who is currently living in Southern California. His newest book, Cellophane Bricks, is out now. We spoke with him from his house in Maine about three shower days, tomato sandwiches, he just drove from Los Angeles to Maine, the best molé in Utah, early tech media, dropping out o

73 min
00:00
01:13:32
No file found
Claire Nichols & Jonathan Lethem 17 Mar 2024 • EN

Jonathan Lethem returns to Brooklyn

Bestselling American author Jonathan Lethem explains why he returned to Brooklyn in his fiction after 20 years. 

54 min
00:00
54:06
No file found
Neil Denny & Jonathan Lethem 02 Jan 2024 • EN

Little Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel

in the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

25 min
00:00
25:36
No file found
Jonathan Lethem 08 Nov 2023 • EN

The Book Club: Jonathan Lethem

In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by the novelist Jonathan Lethem. Two decades after his breakthrough book The Fortress of Solitude crowned Lethem the literary laureate of Brooklyn, he returns to the borough's never-quite-gentrified streets with the new Brooklyn Crime Novel. He tells me why he felt the need

48 min
00:00
48:33
No file found
Alison Stewart & Jonathan Lethem 06 Oct 2023 • EN

Jonathan Lethem's 'Brooklyn Crime Novel'

Jonathan Lethem joins us to discuss his latest book, Brooklyn Crime Novel, which follows the crime that occurs all across a 1970s Brooklyn neighborhood.   Jonathan Lethem's 'Brooklyn Crime Novel'

29 min
00:00
29:02
No file found
Miwa Messer & Jonathan Lethem 03 Oct 2023 • EN

Poured Over Double Shot: Jonathan Lethem and Benjamín Labatut

Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel brings readers to New York in the 70s and the cast of characters it contains. Lethem joins us to talk about creating something different than he’d done before, writing memory and nostalgia, the joy of bookselling and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. The Maniac by Benjam

95 min
00:00
01:35:13
No file found

Podcasts with Jonathan Lethem

Shout-outs

Add shout-out
?? • 22/Jul/2023 20:55:53 • English • Audio
A surprisingly relatable literary master

I discovered Jonathan in 2015. I remember almost the exact day because I was vacationing in Barcelona and I needed a book to... I had to take a few plane rides back and I needed a book to read on the plane, so I bought something that I thought was kind of interesting. It was called a book called Chronic City and to this day it remains one of the favorite novels that I read and it reminded me a lot about my younger years in New York, but it wasn't actually a normal novel. It was kind of a... you have to read it. I'm not gonna explain in this comment what it was, but since then I've been kind of following him as a writer and also as an interview guest. One of the podcasters that I used to follow very very closely, Jason Horsley, apparently he also really likes Jonathan's writings, so he invited him several times to his erstwhile podcast that I don't think is active anymore, but so that was another reason to listen to him. And finally I also read his other books, his essays. I listened to an audiobook of essays of his. I think it was actually him reading it, but I can't remember right now. And the whole overall, I just always find his take on cultural things very interesting, so looking forward to hearing more interviews and especially, you know, I wish one day maybe Jason did another one.

Possible Pairings

You might also be interested in