Excellent interview with Jonathan Lethem.

Excellent interview with Jonathan Lethem.

There is this inevitable disservice that language does to reality, and that's this war that every writer's fighting all the time, and you have to pretend it's not a war to even fight it, that language is adequate to capture experience in order to play the game. But the complaint arises every now and then, in surrealist or whatever other kind of methods are used to break out of these limitations.

Go read the whole thing.