{"id":13265,"date":"2020-04-28T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:07:46","slug":"covid-check-in-with-ken-krimstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-ken-krimstein","title":{"rendered":"COVID Check-In with Ken Krimstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Memories Show<br \/>\nCOVID Check-In: Ken Krimstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9241\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13265-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=13265-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Illustrator and cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/kenkrimstein.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Krimstein<\/a> checks in from Chicago. We talk about how the process of finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/when-i-grow-up-9781635573718\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his next book<\/a> helped him muscle through the early stages of social distancing and isolation, and how the content of the book \u2014 adaptations of anonymous autobiographies of Jewish teens in pre-war Lithuania \u2014 helped him with perspective on the trials people have gone through in the past. We also get into some utopian thinking, going on a Charles Portis binge, his amazement at <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-345-frank-santoro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Santoro<\/a>&#8216;s graphic memoir <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781681374048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh<\/a>, how he&#8217;ll never escape Hannah Arendt, years after finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781635571882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his graphic biography of her<\/a>, and more. <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781635571882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>You can listen to all these COVID Check-In episodes at <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-covid-19-sessions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The COVID-19 Sessions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LH09UTiRw5s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/6xfLLrQ0BYs0dlGMGEUDYv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/embed\/player\/t142545775\/\" style=\"width:100%; height:100px;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/COVID_Check-In_with_Ken_Krimstein.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen to the conversation!<\/a>&nbsp;Then check out&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the archives<\/a> for more conversations from The Before Times.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of ways to follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em>: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vmspod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXoLbP-9GbhHJZpCQP5TR5A\/videos?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenkrimstein.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Krimstein<\/a>&#8216;s cartoons have been published in the <em>New Yorker, Barron&#8217;s, The Harvard Business Review, Prospect Magazine, Punch, The National Lampoon, the Wall Street Journal, Narrative Magazine<\/em>, and three of S. Gross\u2019s cartoon anthologies His humor writing has been in <em>The New York Observer\u2019<\/em>s \u201cNew Yorker\u2019s Diary\u201d and humor websites, including McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller\u2019s Neighborhood. His series of graphic reporting appeared in <em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Printer&#8217;s Row&#8221; literary magazine. A book of his Jewish-themed cartoons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307588882\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307588882&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=ada02364d2c5b647d58fa663c382b7c9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kvetch As Kvetch Can<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0307588882\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">, has been published by Random House\/Clarkson Potter. In addition to teaching at De Paul University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is also an advertising creative director. His most recent book is <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/4669\/9781635571882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth<\/a> (Bloomsbury). Follow Ken on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenkrim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gagcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/krimsteincartoons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: The conversation was recorded remotely via <a href=\"https:\/\/zencastr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zencastr<\/a>. I used a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000SOYOTQ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000SOYOTQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=04f89e1b44161aff17be7ee9479f6d64\">Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000SOYOTQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004MQSV04\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004MQSV04&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=1a177654d0c55797588bc43949ef369e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cloudlifter CL-1<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004MQSV04\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003VZG550\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003VZG550&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=M2DKYCZ52E6ZFUA3\">Mackie Onyx Blackjack 2&#215;2 USB Recording Interface<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B003VZG550\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. All processing and editing done in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DRPVEUK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00DRPVEUK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkId=902a694e24a241f7cee18f483a6ce2dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Audition CC<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00DRPVEUK\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">. Photo of Ken by Ruby Krimstein. It&#8217;s on my <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show COVID Check-In: Ken Krimstein Illustrator and cartoonist Ken Krimstein checks in from Chicago. We talk about how the process of finishing his next book helped him muscle through the early stages of social distancing and isolation, and how the content of the book \u2014 adaptations of anonymous autobiographies of Jewish teens in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-ken-krimstein\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COVID Check-In with Ken Krimstein&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,1028,26,5981,4,1183,18,20],"tags":[5368],"class_list":["post-13265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-chicago","category-comics","category-covid-check-in","category-literature","category-podcasts","category-politics-implicit","category-religion","tag-ken-krimstein","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/kenbyrubykrimstein-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1919","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3rX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14982,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-467-ken-krimstein","url_meta":{"origin":13265,"position":0},"title":"Episode 467 &#8211; Ken Krimstein","author":"Gil","date":"January 4, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 467: Ken Krimstein With his new book, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teens (Bloomsbury), cartoonist Ken Krimstein recreates a lost world, bringing to life the true stories of Jewish youth in 1930s Lithuania, preserved in anonymous submissions for a contest. 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It's got a heritage of art and science crashing into each other, going all the way back to Mad Emperor Rudolf II.\" LIVE from Labyrinth Books, artist and vulgarizer of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/krimstein2024comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/krimstein2024comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/krimstein2024comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/krimstein2024comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/krimstein2024comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15758,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-519-the-guest-list-2022","url_meta":{"origin":13265,"position":3},"title":"Episode 519 &#8211; The Guest List 2022","author":"Gil","date":"December 19, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Guest List 2022 It's time for our year-end Virtual Memories Show tradition, now celebrating its tenth anniversary: The Guest List! 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