{"id":18105,"date":"2009-12-16T17:40:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=18105"},"modified":"2009-12-16T17:40:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:40:28","slug":"lethem-mccarthy-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/lethem-mccarthy-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethem &#038; McCarthy in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jl2.jpg\" alt=\"jl2\" title=\"jl2\" width=\"287\" height=\"353\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jl2.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jl2-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href= \"http:\/\/www.jonathanlethem.com\/\">Jonathan Lethem<\/a> with <a href= \"http:\/\/surplusmatter.com\/\">Tom McCarthy<\/a> at the <a href= \"http:\/\/www.lrbshop.co.uk\/product.php?productid=18481&#038;utm_source=LRB&#038;utm_medium=events&#038;utm_campaign=Events\">London Review Bookshop<\/a> on <strong>Thursday 7 January<\/strong> at 7 p.m ( \u00a36): <\/p>\n<p><em>Chronic City<\/em> (Faber) 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 critic, whose countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw them into another Manhattan, as they attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought:  truth. <strong>Lethem<\/strong>, the author of seven novels, including <em>Fortress of Solitude<\/em>, will be in conversation with the novelist <strong>Tom McCarthy<\/strong>, author of <em>Remainder<\/em> and <em>Men in Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[Pic: Jonathan Lethem by <strong>Julie Jo Fehrie<\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Lethem with Tom McCarthy at the London Review Bookshop on Thursday 7 January at 7 p.m ( \u00a36): Chronic City (Faber) 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}