{"id":11742,"date":"2018-09-03T21:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11742"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:10:36","slug":"episode-285-glen-david-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-285-glen-david-gold","title":{"rendered":"Episode 285 – Glen David Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 285:
\nGlen David Gold<\/a><\/p>\n

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“As a novelist, you get an idea of listening to a character, and thinking about what the character would do, judging whether an action would be true to the character. If you base it on a real person, a lot of those questions are answered, and it becomes a question of finding an avatar for them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>How did Glen David Gold<\/a> get over his Stalinist attitude against memoir to write his amazing new book, I Will Be Complete<\/a>\"\" (Knopf)? Listen in as we talk about his transformation from novelist (Carter Beats the Devil<\/a>\"\" and Sunnyside<\/a>\"\") to the narrator of his own life! We get into his realization that not only was his upbringing not normal, it needed to be revised and refined into a story (in which his dad comes off as a benign putz, which is fine compared to his mom . . .). We also talk about how Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story<\/a>\"\" fixed him up, coming to understand the narrator’s voice by performing parts of the book at open-mic nights, his introduction to Marvel comics & the magic of Jack Kirby, how the UC Irvine fiction-writing program saved his career, his brilliant idea for a podcast (which I’m tempted to steal), his teenaged nerd-out moment with John Irving, the pros & cons of collaborating on comics and screenwriting vs. the solo work of novel-writing, the cultural history of LA, his 3-week work ethic, why he pushes Bourjaily’s Now Playing at Canterbury<\/a>\"\" on anyone who’ll listen, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy I Will Be Complete<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I thought of Kirby’s Silver Age work as his Ulysses, and the ’70s stuff was his Finnegans Wake.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n