Jonathan Lethem: An Interview and a Review
An interview and review with Jonathan Lethem, on his latest novel Dissident Gardens
By Brian Gresko, Lee KonstantinouSeptember 8, 2013
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Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday. 384 pages.
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"Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens is an assured, expert literary performance by one of our most important writers."
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Lethem discusses genre and grandmothers, politics and sense of place, language and literary influences with Brian Gresko
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LARB Contributors
Brian Gresko is an essayist, short story author, and the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. His work has appeared on Salon, The Atlantic, VICE, and in many other places. He lives in Brooklyn.
Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (2016). With Samuel Cohen, he co-edited The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012). He is currently completing a study of Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai.
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