{"id":10086,"date":"2016-12-12T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2017-10-08T23:05:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T03:05:37","slug":"episode-197-the-guest-list-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-197-the-guest-list-2016","title":{"rendered":"Episode 197 – The Guest List 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show<\/strong>\u00a0tradition: The Guest List!<\/em><\/a> I reached out to 2016’s pod-guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year, as well as the books or authors they’re hoping to read in 2017! More than 30 responded with a\u00a0dizzying\u00a0array of books. (I participated, too!) Just in time for you to make some Hanukkah and\/or Christmas purchases, The Virtual Memories Show<\/strong> offers up a huge<\/em> list of books<\/a> that you’re going to want to read! Give it a listen, and get ready to update your wish lists!<\/a><\/p>\n

This year’s Guest List<\/em> episode features selections from more than 30 of our recent guests (and one bonus guest)! So go give it a listen<\/a>, and then visit our special Guest List<\/em> page<\/a> where you can find links to the books and the guests who responded.<\/p>\n

Also,\u00a0check out the 2013<\/a>, 2014<\/a> and 2015<\/a> editions of The Guest List<\/em> for more great book ideas!<\/p>\n

(painting of Scribners bookstore by Bob Eckstein from his new book, Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers<\/a>\"\")<\/i><\/p>\n

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The guests who participated in this year’s Guest List<\/em> are Glen Baxter, Ross Benjamin, Harold Bloom, MK Brown, Nina Bunjevac, Hayley Campbell, David M. Carr, Myke Cole, Liza Donnelly, Bob Eckstein, Glynnis Fawkes, Rachel Hadas, Liz Hand, Glenn Head, Virginia Heffernan, Harry Katz, Ed Koren, David Leopold, Arthur Lubow, Michael Maslin, David Mikics, Ben Model, Christopher Nelson, Jim Ottaviani, Ann Patty, Burton Pike, Frank Sorce, Willard Spiegelman, Leslie Stein, Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins), Andrea Tsurumi, Carol Tyler, Jim Woodring, and me, Gil Roth! Check out their episodes at our archives<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Nothing’s Gonna Bring Me Down\u00a0by David Baerwald<\/a>, used with permission of the artist. Most of the episode was recorded on a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone<\/a>\"\" feeding into a Cloudlifter CL-1<\/a>\"\" and a Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface<\/a>\"\". Myke Cole’s segment was recorded at a friend’s apartment in NYC on a pair of\u00a0Blue enCORE 200 Microphones<\/a>\"\" feeding into a Zoom H5<\/a>\"\" digital recorder. All processing and editing done in Adobe Audition CC<\/a>\"\".<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2016 It’s time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show\u00a0tradition: The Guest List! I reached out to 2016’s pod-guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year, as well as the books or authors they’re hoping to read in 2017! More than 30 responded with … <\/p>\n

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