Novelist Jonathan Lethem is the author of Girl In Landscape, Chronic City , and Brooklyn Crime Novel , as well as ten other novels. His stories and essays have been collected in seven volumes. His fifth novel, Motherless Brooklyn , won the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, and he has been the recipient of The Berlin Prize and a Macarthur Fellowship among other honors. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.

He and Zuckerman discuss writing stories about Art, growing up as a child of a painter, where freedom is found, mirroring the world, doing his tricks, looking, kinship and generation, waiting and wondering, play, denial of independence, and memory and savoring!