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Show Notes
<div>In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by the novelist Jonathan Lethem. Two decades after his breakthrough book <em>The Fortress of Solitude </em>crowned Lethem the literary laureate of Brooklyn, he returns to the borough's never-quite-gentrified streets with the new <em>Brooklyn Crime Novel</em>. He tells me why he felt the need to go back, and talks about race, intimacy, realism, the 'non-fiction novel' – and why he regrets his beef with the critic James Wood.</div>
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