LARB Radio Hour

Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car"


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Eric Newman speaks with Eugene Lim about his novel Fog & Car. First published in 2008 and freshly brought back into print this year, the novel dilates on the experiences of a couple making a life on their own in the wake of their divorce, the novel explores loneliness, grief, and the struggles of human relation through rotating perspectives of each member of the former couple as well as the friend they share in common. Walking through the novel's key moments, the discussion also explores how the passage of time has changed Lim's relationship to the characters and the existential loneliness that orbits the core of Fog & Car. Also, Mark Krotov co-editor of The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1's Second Decade, retruns to recommend Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library.

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