{"id":10286,"date":"2017-04-17T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:25:26","slug":"episode-214-wallis-wilde-menozzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-214-wallis-wilde-menozzi","title":{"rendered":"Episode 214 – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 214: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a><\/p>\n

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“We’re shoulder to shoulder with a lot of people, and we assume we know them in a way that we don’t, but we don’t assume that we don’t know them in the way that we should.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poet, novelist and essayist Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a> returns to the show to talk about her novel, Toscanelli’s Ray<\/a>, the ways Italy has changed in her four decades there, her recent work in narrative medicine, survival tips from living through the Berlusconi era, writing a polyphonic novel of Florence in the ’90s and hearing how those voices have changed, differences between her Italian and American students, balancing poetry and prose, her favorite book of the Divine Comedy<\/em> (we also get into why I like a different one), accidentally winning a DAR award when she was a schoolgirl, what foods she misses when she’s in the US, thinking in Italian, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Toscanelli’s Ray<\/a>\"\" and The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“To be a writer, you have to write something that in a way no one else could write.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n