{"id":10169,"date":"2017-01-30T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:29:40","slug":"episode-203-ben-yagoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-203-ben-yagoda","title":{"rendered":"Episode 203 – Ben Yagoda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 203: Ben Yagoda<\/a><\/p>\n

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“It’s fun for me to find stories that haven’t been told and tell them for the first time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Author Ben Yagoda<\/a> joins the show to talk about teaching journalism, 40 years (!) of writing language columns<\/a>, the influence of Harry Potter own his students, the history of the memoir<\/a>\"\", the mystery of why the “Great American Songbook<\/a>\"\"” withered after WWII, his hatred of the term “creative nonfiction”, the invasion of Britishisms into American English<\/a>, our shared history in the Make-Believe Ballroom, the challenges of watching sporting events on tape delay, and more! (Also, I talk a little about the refugee-ban protests of the past weekend.)<\/em>\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n