{"id":10115,"date":"2017-01-02T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10115"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:37:54","slug":"episode-199-michael-tisserand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-199-michael-tisserand","title":{"rendered":"Episode 199 – Michael Tisserand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #199: Michael Tisserand<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I always feel like Herriman’s a a step ahead of me. When I read Krazy Kat I think I know what I’m reading; the next week I read the same strip and I realize I’m reading something different than I thought I was reading.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>For our 199th episode, Michael Tisserand<\/a> joins the show to talk about his fantastic new book, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White<\/a>\"\" (Harper). We discuss Krazy Kat<\/a>, race in America and the phenomenon of racial passing, newsroom culture, conducting research on microfilm in the age of Google, the allure of New Orleans, what it was like to write the biography of an enigma, and a lot more. So don’t be a bald-faced gazooni! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy KRAZY<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Herriman treated language as something that wasn’t up to shouldering the kind of burdens that we put on it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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