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Title:   Chronic City
Participants:   Jonathan Lethem
In conversation with journalist Tom Teicholz
Program Date:    10/27/2009
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

In this new novel, the acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn portrays a Manhattan that is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and utterly unique.


Participant(s) Bio

Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others.

http://www.jonathanlethem.com/

Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Interview and The Forward. Recently, Tom Teicholz served as American Film Editor for the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica.

http://tommywood.com


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