{"id":10833,"date":"2017-11-20T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2017-11-21T06:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T10:12:26","slug":"episode-245-eshkol-nevo-paul-gravett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-245-eshkol-nevo-paul-gravett","title":{"rendered":"Episode 245 – Eshkol Nevo & Paul Gravett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 245:
\nEshkol Nevo & Paul Gravett<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I never think of writing as something where I have to achieve something or pass on a message.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Israeli author Eshkol Nevo<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new novel Three Floors Up<\/a>\"\" (Other Press) and how he explained it to passport control on his visit to the US. We talk about how his fiction-writing career both integrates and rejects his past lives in advertising and psychology, explore the Robin Hood model of the creative writing school, and get into the background PTSD of daily life in Israel.<\/p>\n

Then comics scholar Paul Gravett<\/a> rejoins the show (here’s our first ep.<\/a>) to talk about his new exhibition, MANGASIA: Wonderlands of Asian Comics<\/a>, and the book<\/a>\"\" that accompanies it (here’s a video about the exhibition)<\/a>. We get into the impact of manga across Asian culture (and beyond), his dream project of a Mexican comics retrospective, and how North Korea’s comics visually portray their glorious leader.<\/p>\n

Plus, there’s my wacky story about meeting Graydon Carter last week!<\/em>\u00a0Listen to the new episode!<\/a> And go buy Three Floors Up<\/a>\"\" and Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I imagine my deathbed scene being people bringing my silver platters of comics that I’ve never seen, right up until the very end.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n