{"id":13562,"date":"2020-06-15T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:07:18","slug":"episode-375-arthur-hoyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-375-arthur-hoyle","title":{"rendered":"Episode 375 – Arthur Hoyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 375: Arthur Hoyle<\/a><\/p>\n

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“What really was hammered home by the stories in my book was the persistence of injustice in our society, the ongoing struggle make this country live up to its ideals.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Author Arthur Hoyle<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new book, Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain<\/a> (Sunbury Press), in which profiles of American figures help illustrate the paradoxes and aspirations of a nation. We get into how the book grew out of the concept of the exemplar put forth by Henry Miller (the subject of Arthur’s first book<\/a>), his vision of America and how the florid language of the founding fathers is like PR for a damaging product, and how his selection of biographical subjects in MM&M<\/em> represents the diversity of America in its ethnicity and geographic spread. We also get into climate change and rampant capitalism, his practice of “first draft, best draft”, the fascist seed of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, how the pandemic scrambled his trip to Patagonia and led to an odyssey to get back to Southern California, his next book about the tension artists face between the muse & the mundane, our various ideas of how to treat Henry Miller in film & fiction, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“To Henry Miller, exemplars were larger-than-life figures who lived well, pushed their potential, challenged the circumstances they were born into, and stood out as models.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n