{"id":10226,"date":"2017-03-06T20:48:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:27:47","slug":"episode-208-barbara-epler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-208-barbara-epler","title":{"rendered":"Episode 208 – Barbara Epler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 208: Barbara Epler<\/a><\/p>\n

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“We try to find things that move the walls in our brain about what fiction and poetry can do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New Directions<\/a> publisher Barbara Epler joins the show to talk about her accidental career, the pros and cons of New Directions’ size, the Moneyball<\/em> aspect of publishing works in translation, surviving a Nobel crush<\/a>, the importance of secondary rights, the language she most wishes she could read, the novel she promises never to write, the book whose success surprised her the most, where WG Sebald’s<\/a> work might have gone, and more! This is part of our Festival Neue Literatur<\/a> series; Barbara is the 2017 recipient of the FNL’s Friedrich Ulfers Prize<\/a>!<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“We have to make money, but we don’t do anything that overtly looks like it makes money.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n