Jun 25, 2015
Jonathan
Lethem is
the featured guest on this week's installment of the podcast known
as The Chauncey DeVega Show.
He is the author of many award winning books
including Dissident
Gardens, The
Fortress of Solitude,
and Motherless
Brooklyn.
Jonathan conducted a master class and did some wonderful sharing
about the culture of disreputability, the
movie They
Live,
race and class, generational politics, and shared some stories
about growing up in a pre-Disneyfied New York
City.
This episode also features a conversation with
psychologist Dr. David
Reiss about
the loss of the great and amazing professional wrestler known as
"The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, and why his
death has hit fans of the sport so hard,
and the reasons that so many people felt a personal connection to
him.
In addition, portions of this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show
were recorded in the very moments when The Charleston Massacre was
a "breaking news event" on the cable news
networks.
Instead of editing out those segments, they have remained in the
show as a type of archive and online testimony to the power of that
moment. At the end of this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show,
Chauncey reflects on the week's happenings since The Charleston
Massacre, the news cycle, the Right-wing hate media, and the GOP's
efforts to derail any conversation about white domestic terrorism,
guns, and toxic white masculinity.