"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.
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