{"id":10001,"date":"2016-11-14T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2017-10-08T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T03:09:10","slug":"episode-194-bob-eckstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-194-bob-eckstein","title":{"rendered":"Episode 194 – Bob Eckstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show #194: Bob Eckstein<\/a><\/p>\n

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“This book has three things I love: bookstores, painting and name-dropping.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Artist, writer, humorist and cartoonist Bob Eckstein<\/a> joins the show to talk about his wonderful new book, Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers<\/a>\"\". We get into the origins of the project, how he survived the sheer volume of bookstore-cat stories, how he once got dirty in the back of the Strand Bookstore, getting introduced to art by Sports Illustrated<\/em>, a great lesson in comic timing, getting a late start in cartooning but making up for lost time, marrying his biggest enemy from art school (and eloping to Iceland), becoming a champion of bookstore culture, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I got paid the same amount of money doing pieces for the New York Times in 1982 and 1983 as I get paid now.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We also talk about the collapsing economics of illustration, cartooning, and pretty much every other field Bob pursues, doing seven years of research on The History of the Snowman<\/a>\"\" (in which he discovered some amazing stuff) and accidentally shooting down a TV project based on it, how Footnotes<\/em> taught him that people’s real story isn’t always the one they think they’re telling you, his exultation at selling his very first submission to The New Yorker<\/em> and his puzzlement when he didn’t sell another one there for a year, what makes for a good bookstore, the benefits of eavesdropping, and more! Now go listen to the show!<\/a><\/p>\n

“Every bookstore is thousands of peoples’ dreams, either fulfilled or unfulfilled. Everyone’s life project is on the shelf. And it’s where people’s dreams are going to get triggered.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n