672. - Jonathan Lethem

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Comedy

4.5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Jonathan Lethem is a writer from New York who is currently living in Southern California. His newest book, Cellophane Bricks, is out now. We spoke with him from his house in Maine about three shower days, tomato sandwiches, he just drove from Los Angeles to Maine, the best molé in Utah, early tech media, dropping out of Bennington College, when a reference dies, the infinite jukebox, a new kind of superhero, how he sleeps on planes, AI is the most boring way to cheat, and how he knows he's having fun writing. instagram.com/jonathanlethem twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to go and How long gone is here the end of July is nigh. We're recording in Los Angeles and New York. Chris, what's up, bro?
0:25.7	Oh, another scorching day in the concrete jungle.
0:29.6	Okay.
0:30.6	It's disgusting, and I am ready to leave for the equally as warm but somewhat less
0:37.7	disgusting city of Los Angeles, California. It's actually pretty nice here right
0:41.4	now. There's it's 80s 80s and 90s but you know it's a dry heat
0:46.2	So it's hotter in New York for sure. Yeah, right now
0:48.8	As I walked to get my haircut by eight degrees. Yeah minimum as I walked to get my
0:53.4	haircut today I was Fahrenheit just drenched watching you know just just just
0:58.4	stretched with sweat and thinking about the decisions I've made in my life.
1:01.7	How long is the walk from your flat to your barber?
1:06.7	It's a little further than I would like because the barber
1:09.4	is in the East Village, my old neighborhood,
1:11.8	and I'm very loyal, and it probably takes 20 minutes.
1:15.4	It's not crazy. 20 minute walk, so about a mile or so.
1:19.0	But I stopped at Sweet Green for some sustenance on the way.
1:22.0	I ran into friend of the show Mike Nouveau,
1:23.8	watch dealer to the Stars, who was... Was he creating content while he was at Sweet Green?
1:29.4	I wish, but I don't know enough about watches, you know. I didn't I told him I I I love the business of
1:34.6	watches more than I love the actual objects and I think he might agree with me to some
1:39.2	extent he seems to be doing quite he like launched an app's a whole thing, but he was going to Vegas for some sort of weird watch.
1:46.0	Just because it says Ottomar doesn't mean it's not ugly, right guys?
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