Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem

Watch/read/listen:

- (WATCH): the trailer for Motherless Brooklyn

- (WATCH): the trailer for the doc Twitch and Shout

- (WATCH): a doc about the NBA player with Tourettes

- (LISTEN): to the Radiohead version of the main song

- (LISTEN): to the Jazz version of the main song

- (LISTEN): to Prince’s extended version of Kiss

- (READ): the guest list for Radiohead’s concert

- (READ): An Anthropologist on Mars neurology book

- (READ): The Power Broker about Robert Moses

- (READ): an article about the road through Washington Square Park

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Topics from today’s episode:

01:05 - why you should listen to the audiobook

02:50 - the worldwide history of detectives

08:00 - who is Jonathan Lethem?

08:15 - what does Motherless Brooklyn mean?

10:00 - why the detective has Tourette’s

12:00 - Edward Norton finds the book

16:30 - the secret man who ran NYC

21:45 - Edward Norton almost gave up

23:05 - ‘90s music in a ’50’s world

25:10 - Prince and Tourette’s

28:00 - the NBA player with Tourette’s

29:20 - the beautiful last line

33:10 - let us know what you’re into

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Taylor Zabloski