The New Salon: Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Darin Strauss

Whether you lean toward the painstaking local color of The Fortress of Solitude, the loopy, hard-boiled rush of Motherless Brooklyn or the fantastical satire of Chronic City, the appeal of author and essayist Jonathan Lethem is hard to deny. His new book, Dissident Gardens, rides the zeitgeist as it follows the lives of three generations of protesters.