{"id":10217,"date":"2017-02-27T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2018-11-19T07:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:57:38","slug":"episode-207-garth-greenwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-207-garth-greenwell","title":{"rendered":"Episode 207 – Garth Greenwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 207: Garth Greenwell<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Speaking a language inexpertly makes language visible, and malleable. You become aware of language not just as a medium but as matter itself, as something you manipulate, as something you have to work with.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Garth Greenwell<\/a> joins the show to talk about the poetics of cruising (and cruising’s great leveling potential) both in his life and in his debut novel What Belongs to You<\/a>\"\", the hyper-masculine culture and homophobia of Bulgaria, his concern that contemporary English-language writers don’t read in other languages (or read in translation), his role chairing the 2017 Festival Neue Literatur<\/a>, the dangers of LGBTQ mainstreaming, the fragility of cosmopolitanism, the state of queer fiction, and our mutual admiration of Samuel R. Delany! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy What Belongs to You: A Novel<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I wanted in this book to create a space where I could think about what shame feels like to an open and proud gay man.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bonus:<\/strong> This episode\u00a0is also part of our media partnership with Festival Neue Literatur<\/a>, which is taking place March 2-5 in New York City! Garth’s the chairperson for the event! Go attend! Maybe I’ll see you there!<\/em><\/p>\n