Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthy
Thursday 7 January 2010, 7 p.m. · 60 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/4/3/2/9/529234-9-eng-GB/526a5452c182f.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/4/3/2/9/529234-9-eng-GB/526a5452c182f.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/4/3/2/9/529234-9-eng-GB/526a5452c182f.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/4/3/2/9/529234-9-eng-GB/526a5452c182f.jpg 1200w)
Manhattan in the 21st century has a achieved a maximum amount of unreality... All of New York City is a reconstruction of a previously real concept.
Jonathan Lethem came to the London Review Bookshop to discuss his latest book with the novelist Tom McCarthy. A searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped up in their own delusions, desires and lies, Chronic City is animated by the countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia of free-range pop critic Perkus Tooth, as he goes in pursuit of that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: truth.
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