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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: Episode 399 — Jarett Kobek
Description: Jarett Kobek is the guest. His new novel is called I Hate the Internet, available now from We Heard You Like Books.Â
This one was fun. I didn't know what to expect. Or I guess I sort of knew what to expect: Jarett and I would talk about the internet and what it feels like to hate it. But I didn't know quite what to expect from Jarett himself. Jonathan Lethem called him "the American Houellebecq," so I guess I was imagining that he would be drunk and smoking cigarettes and difficult to talk to, and so on. I ima...