{"id":13440,"date":"2020-05-26T09:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2020-05-26T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:12:04","slug":"episode-373-kathe-koja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-373-kathe-koja","title":{"rendered":"Episode 373 – Kathe Koja"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 373:
\nKathe Koja<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Chaos is its own engine.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Writer, performer, director and producer Kathe Koja<\/a> rejoins the show to talk about her new story collection, VELOCITIES<\/a> (Meerkat Press). We talk how she’s coping with the pandemic, the importance of having a good working relationship with chaos, and why Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker<\/a> is more apropos than ever. She gets into her work in immersive theater and how it needs to be reimagined in this era of social distancing, while teasing out details of her new project, Dark Factory<\/a>. We also get into the upcoming reissue of her cult novel The Cipher<\/a> this September, why she’s bingeing on Babylon Berlin<\/em>, the one thing she hoarded when things went sideways, why it’s important to be open to the messages the world sends us, and what to do when you find a pill lying on the floor in a hospital cafeteria. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy VELOCITIES<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“If writing is not a conversation, it’s really nothing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n