Jonathan Lethem

from Apology Hosted by Jesse Pearson

On this episode of the Apology podcast, host Jesse Pearson welcomes the author Jonathan Lethem to discuss many topics including (but not limited to): Julio Cortázar; animals in literature; paths of entry to the works of Norman Mailer, Philip K. Dick, and Stanisław Lem; Lethem's latest book, Brooklyn Crime Novel; and the class-based, Marxist underpinnings to the creation of literary genres. And more! Much more! Special thanks to this episode's sponsor, Sci-Fi Fantasy.

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Heirloom - Complete by T. Duthie-Lisle Loyal Books It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of life; and none know better than the true novelist that the wildest schemes which his imagination can conceive, the marvellous combinations which a turn of the magic kaleidoscope of eventualities, and what we misname fortune, may produce, are again and again out acted in real life.With this apology the incidents of the following story are committed to the criticism of an indulgent, and the writer trusts, a not too severely critical world.THE AUTHOR "The hardiest spirit may well quail before the stupendous task of giving any accurate idea of what is, apparently, the first-fruits of Mr. Duthie-Lisle's imagination" "...obtrudes itself on almost every page as deficient in sense as of grammar" "...this incredibly foolish book" "One of the missions of the literary critic is to warn off intending readers from books that are utterly worthless, and '

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