Veteran literary critic Christian Lorentzen comes by the Pubkey studios to discuss why he was wrong about Trump v. Biden; how he knows Ivanka & Jared; an early Observer story in which he spoke to Martin Amis, Tao Lin, and as many literary Jonathans as he could muster; “literary consumerism” and his deservedly famous piece “Like This Or Die”; the subtle art of the book review; the author whom Lorentzen called “subliterary”; Donna Tartt and Yanagihara; top younger writers today; the New York scene; Beckett’s and Sov House; why he moved to Albania; his MRB piece on Logo Daedalus and BAP, and more.

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