{"id":10813,"date":"2017-11-12T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2017-11-12T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:25:00","slug":"episode-244-nicholas-delbanco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-244-nicholas-delbanco","title":{"rendered":"Episode 244 – Nicholas Delbanco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 244: Nicholas Delbanco<\/a><\/p>\n

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“It’s a rare day when I’m not at my desk by 6.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>He’s been blackening the blank page for more than 50 years, and now Nicholas Delbanco<\/a> joins The Virtual Memories Show<\/strong><\/em> to talk about writing, teaching, and sleepwalking through life! We get into his new essay collection, Curiouser and Curiouser<\/a>, the importance of establishing a writing routine or habit, the process of revising a decades-old trilogy in light of his growth as a writer, the art of faking spontaneity on the page, the value of a good MFA program, his refutation of his friends’ belief that language is a finite resource and not a renewable one, his assessment that he’s a minor writer (or, even worse, “a writer’s writer”), and the place the deracinated consider home. Plus: I fall back into the trap of Acquisitive Alchemy!<\/em> Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Writers probably don’t have more than two or three major topics, and the passage of time is one of mine.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n