{"id":13370,"date":"2020-05-13T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13370"},"modified":"2020-05-13T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:24:10","slug":"covid-check-in-with-kate-maruyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-kate-maruyama","title":{"rendered":"COVID Check-In with Kate Maruyama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show
\nCOVID Check-In: Kate Maruyama<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author, teacher & activist Kate Maruyama<\/a> checks in from LA. We talk about whether writers have a responsibility to write a positive future and how she helped organize the Writing Better Futures in Times of Crisis<\/a> virtual event (happening 5\/14\/20!). We also get into how she self-shamed into finishing a novella but is averse to the myth of WFH productivity, teaching writing online<\/a> nowadays, whether her F&SF & horror background prepared her for this scenario, the fragmentation of LA and the challenges that creates for keeping community, reading for the Shirley Jackson Awards, the theory that panicked brains focus on details rather than broad & deep thinking, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

You can listen to all these COVID Check-In episodes at The COVID-19 Sessions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n