{"id":11929,"date":"2018-12-03T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2018-12-03T21:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:10:02","slug":"episode-298-summer-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-298-summer-pierre","title":{"rendered":"Episode 298 – Summer Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 298:
\nSummer Pierre<\/a><\/p>\n

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“A mix-tape isn’t just saying, ‘I want you to enjoy this’, it’s, ‘I want you to enjoy me making this.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>In her new graphic memoir, All the Sad Songs<\/a>\"\" (Retrofit Comics), Summer Pierre<\/a> uses the mix-tapes of her 20s and 30s to tell us the story of her life, one wrong boyfriend, one cross-country drive, one Boston folk stage set at a time. We talk about the soundtracks to our lives, the memoir & comics influences that gave her permission to tackle her PTSD issues on the page, the discovery that she was making a 104-page comic instead of the 25-page one she set out to draw (or “getting used by the muse”), and how surprised she was that college students know what a mix-tape is. We also get into her artistic maturation out of the kamikaze-style of making comics, the Boston folk music scene she was in\/around in her 20s, the somatic therapy that helped her deal with PTSD, the notion that mixes are self-portraits, and wanting to be her mother’s biographer, but realizing she knew almost nothing about her mom’s insane life. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy All the Sad Songs<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“This book’s about memory and the power of art to narrate our lives.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n