Many thanks for posting this. He is a very good man and also a very good writer. He is (still) striving diligently.

Loved Deep South. Found it addictive reading. Great back-stories all the way thro. Many very sensitively recorded. Great writing

What an intriguing and wonderfully interesting writer, man, philosopher and human being. Bravo! I love Iyer's books also!

I loved how Iyer would just stay quiet and let Theroux go on and on. It was so interesting to listen to Theroux's looping stories, wandering off on branching trails, which would come back to the main path in a fascinating and informative way. Before listening to this interview I listened to Theroux on "Travels with Rick Steves", and Steves kept interrupting Theroux so Steves could talk about his experiences. I swear, Steves must have taken up half of his brief interview with Theroux with interruptions and talk about himself.

Paul Theroux is so much alive & truthful.

Great to find this. Two great travelers, writers and thinkers.

Paul Theroux sounds like a man with a lot to say but not enough time to say it. He is a modern day prophet. Read any of his books, fiction or travel, and you'll know what I mean. 'Mosquito Coast' would be a good starting point, but all his books somehow foretell the future or, at least, deconstruct the present. He manages to transcend the author as storyteller and the author as literary genius.

Always interesting to listen to Paul Theroux. Deep South is a great read.

Thank you.

Funny to hear Paul Theroux being grumpy about Jonathan Raban. In the early 80s while undertaking the walk around the UK that became A Kingdom By The Sea, he bumped into Raban in Brighton and found out, to his dismay, that Raban was embarked on a similar project. They both write about it in their respective books, with little love lost. And it's silly to tick Bill Bryson off for comic travel writing - it's what he does! But Theroux's one of the greats all the same.

What an interesting man, I could listen all day.

Whaat a writer; what a man.

Just finished reading the book. A wonderful insight into the culture of South. Much needs to be done, and charity must begin at home. However, the racial divide in America, and particularly the legacy of the Civil War and Jim Crow South is the dirty family secret that most people want to sweep under the rug, and move on. One can only hope that the change makers of the South that the book portrays get the much deserved support in their fight against the malaise.

Theroux's accent is intriguingly mid Atlantic.

As of May 22, 2019, captions are not available. Sadly, the absence of captions makes it hard to hear and understand everything.

No intro music?

Thank you for such a high quality channel. Thus far I admit, somewhat embarrassed to having only watched Leonard Cohen...What he said about Judaism went over my head- I'd have to listen, much of what Leonard said on all subjects is over my head- he was so eloquent and probably a genius, albeit one who wouldn't be impressed by that- it's like Beautiful Women who toss their hair often in your face if you're homely like me ( my father indicated Golda M) well Leonard could be casual about being gifted because that's just how it was....Sorry, I am drugged, not a junkie, a sleeping pill and I am a bit stoned, so I will leave off- a terrific channel. I will be back, to Leonard AND some of the films, etc. My therapist is Muslim, I try to follow the Dalai Lama- Tibetan Buddhism seems a little more mystical to me than Zen but again I make an uneducated remark- and I am physically unwell, to the point of having to go get tested for Covid, nearly a year ago- negative but I am ill, I feel like those who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome- I never doubted them, I am lazy though, not "in a suit" nope, no stuffy pantsuit- 3 piece, waistcoat and all, not even Tommy Nutter- blue jeans...Namaste from the Most Boring City in Canada ( what do you think about Leonard's opinions on Judaism? Seriously- I subscribed to My Jewish Learning, but they stopped delivery as I am dreadful when it comes to gmail- I was fortunate to be raised by a lapsed Catholic and a Sometime Anglican who wasn't well, neither parent was, when Elizabeth Taylor converted because she married Eddie Fischer, my mother, bless her drugged out housewife, battered woman, head, started reading up- the good thing about nutty parents is you look around much more intensely than other teens-)

Theroux should be the next American to win the Nobel Literature Prize.

Great interview... good talk. It's amazing what 50 years abroad will do to your accent. I've been abroad just ten years and my mom tells me my accent is weird.

Squirrel stew.

Why was he convincing so hard that his is not a travel book? 😬🙉

In this interview Paul talks about how progressive Nashville is with book signings and opera. His book is all about the small town poor South and nothing about the New South of the cities. He presented a very one-sided view of the South. I've read many of his travel books and like them though.

2023 now travel writers have a good chance of being shot in America.

He sounds kinda British!

Did you sleep in that suit Paul?

Deep South I found his least interesting book -and I think I've read all his travel books. Seems to have been written in a hurry and didn't really understand his repeat visits. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is I think the best written.

Pico is a great man. Theroux is a tourist.

Likes himself, doesn’t he...?

Enough Clinton bashing. Enough already. Too bad this talk was not held after Trump. Then Theroux could really talk about moral blindness and we could all applaud him.

He's a crank.

Mr Theroux is way off in his estimation of Obama....despite all the clever and readable books he has written.

THEROUX'S MONOLOGUE. Only thing missing is leather elbow patches and a pipe. Boring!

Like many writers, he's a poor public speaker...stuttering and stammering his way through banal observations as if he were teasing out the mathematical nuances of a physics problem. As insufferable as his son.