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Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthy

Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthy

Chronic City is a searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped up in their own delusions, desires and lies. Into the cloistered life of Chase Insteadman, handsome but inoffensive fixture on the social scene, comes Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop...

London Review Bookshop Podcast

January 7, 20101h 0m

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Show Notes

In conversation with the novelist Tom McCarthy, Jonathan Lethem read from Chronic City and discussed, inter alia, Manhattan's virtuality, the inspiration behind the character of Perkus Tooth, the price of things, and talking animals.

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