{"id":10736,"date":"2017-10-16T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2017-10-16T20:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:17:20","slug":"episode-240-john-crowley-and-michael-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-240-john-crowley-and-michael-meyer","title":{"rendered":"Episode 240 – John Crowley and Michael Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 240:
\nJohn Crowley & Michael Meyer<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Writing has made people feel unsafe and uncomfortable since, oh, the Bible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of my favorite authors, John Crowley<\/a>, returns to the show to talk about his “final dress novel,” the wonderful Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr<\/a>\"\" (Saga Press). We talk about the sense of his various endings, writing a talking animal book that’s actually about an old man dying, the challenges of reaching a broader audience and why he returned to fantastika, his retirement from teaching at Yale and his thoughts on how students have changed, his Catholic upbringing and how it informed his writing, the pressure of new rules and norms on writers, the radical challenge of sympathy, and more. But first, I call Michael Meyer<\/a> to talk about his new book, The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up<\/a>\"\" (Bloomsbury). We get into what Americans really need to know about China, how the country has changed in the 20+ years that he’s been working and living there (on and off), and why Pittsburgh is the Beijing of the US. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Ka<\/a>\"\" & The Road to Sleeping Dragon<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“We will figure out how to write exactly what we want to write, but within a coded system where we can speak to one another as adults, while people who want to check it against the present rules can read it that way, but we’ll know better.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n