{"id":11274,"date":"2018-03-06T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2018-06-23T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T20:31:29","slug":"episode-259-lavie-tidhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-259-lavie-tidhar","title":{"rendered":"Episode 259 – Lavie Tidhar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 259:
\nLavie Tidhar<\/a><\/p>\n

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“You must be doing something right if you’re pissing people off. I just wish it was easier to piss people off.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Science fiction author Lavie Tidhar<\/a> joins the show to talk about the five topics that Israeli novelists are allowed to write about, his affinity for pulp fiction tropes, when it’s okay to make fun of Hitler (which he does at great length in A Man Lies Dreaming<\/a>\"\"), why he finds utopias sinister (hint: he was raised on a kibbutz), how to build a career on ambitious failure, the eye-opening experience of editing world anthologies of SF, the difference between having fans and having readers, the distracting joy of Twitter<\/a>, why not getting published in Israel felt like a reverse-BDS movement, and what it’s like never knowing which shelf a bookstore will decide to put his books. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy A Man Lies Dreaming<\/a>\"\" (among other works of his)!<\/p>\n

“No one is doing what I’m doing, looking at big historical processes — like the Holocaust and 9\/11 — but doing it through this particular pulp lens and through alternate history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n