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The VICE Podcast - Jonathan Lethem on Radical Politics in America

Jonathan Lethem's most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.

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The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion that goes inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.

Previously on the podcast - 'Escape from Tomorrow'