{"id":11587,"date":"2018-07-08T20:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2018-07-08T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:45:23","slug":"episode-277-nathaniel-popkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-277-nathaniel-popkin","title":{"rendered":"Episode 277 – Nathaniel Popkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 277:
\nNathaniel Popkin<\/a><\/p>\n

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“A city, like a book, can be read.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>For a guy who calls himself a master of nothing, Nathaniel Popkin<\/a> does a pretty good job for himself as a novelist, literary editor, critic, journalist, and urban historian. Nathaniel joins the show to talk about his new novel, Everything Is Borrowed<\/a>\"\" (New Door Books), as well as the new literary anthology he co-edited, Who Will Speak for America?<\/a>\"\" (Temple University Press). We get into the fertile subject and setting of Philadelphia<\/a>, the goal of building a literary hub for his adopted city, the process of writing a novel about anarchists and architects (which I sorta characterize as the anti-Fountainhead<\/em>), the necessity of self-delusion for artists, his background in urban planning and how it informs his writing, the challenges and rewards of seeking diversity in art, the importance of the Writers Resist<\/a> movement, how becoming a writer was his way of being Jewish in the world, and why he eschewed MFA vs NYC in favor of PHL! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Everything Is Borrowed<\/a>\"\", Who Will Speak for America?<\/a>\"\", and Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“The question of who will speak for America is vital at this moment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n