{"id":13664,"date":"2020-07-14T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13664"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:15:10","slug":"episode-383-everett-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-383-everett-glenn","title":{"rendered":"Episode 383 &#8211; Everett Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Memories Show 383:<br \/>\nEverett Glenn<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1165\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13664-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=13664-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.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<blockquote><p>&#8220;My motivation? Kinda cookie-cutter: Desperate person doesn&#8217;t want to die of alcoholism, writes instead. That&#8217;s the blurb.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/floatingworldcomics.com\/shop\/comic-books\/unsmooth-1-by-e-s-glenn\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13666\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-383-everett-glenn\/unsmooth\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsmooth.jpg?fit=678%2C959\" data-orig-size=\"678,959\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unsmooth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsmooth.jpg?fit=438%2C620\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsmooth.jpg?resize=280%2C396\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsmooth.jpg?resize=311%2C440 311w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsmooth.jpg?resize=438%2C620 438w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsmooth.jpg?w=678 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Artist, cartoonist, and clotheshorse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ev_glenn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everett Glenn<\/a> joins the show from Berlin to talk about how narrating his life as a story helped him make (some) sense of his fragmented, chaotic upbringing (he talks more about that upbringing in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSq8sgtuCEA\">great conversation with Noah Van Sciver<\/a>). We get into his evolution and influences as a cartoonist through his <a href=\"https:\/\/floatingworldcomics.com\/shop\/comic-books\/unsmooth-1-by-e-s-glenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsmooth<\/a> graphic novel and his recent amazing achievement of the 20-page story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/now8\/\">The Gigs<\/a> (which you <em>HAVE<\/em> to read), how he skipped the idol-worship phase of literature, how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cool World<\/a> and Ralph Bakshi blew his mind at an impressionable age, and how he deals with the self-eating snake of racial identity from the perspective of a Black American living in Germany. We also talk about the importance of design, the origins of his <em>ligne claire<\/em>, where his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/es_glenn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fantastic clothing sense<\/a> comes from, how he learned tailoring in an attempt to get a visa, how the confidence it takes to push the fashion envelope can feed into confidence in other parts of life, and more! <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read <a href=\"https:\/\/floatingworldcomics.com\/shop\/comic-books\/unsmooth-1-by-e-s-glenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsmooth<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/now8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gigs<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Art school teaches you how to embody the idea that art is valuable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-nLIrDD16I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Somerset Maugham was basically my dad. Khalil Gibran was my birth father and left me in Maugham&#8217;s hands.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SPOTIFY LINK TK<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When it comes to race, it doesn&#8217;t matter what I think. I&#8217;ll always be a Black man in society. That&#8217;s something I can&#8217;t control.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/embed\/player\/t155345410\/\" style=\"width:100%; height:100px;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I skipped the idol-worship stage of discovering literature. I went straight to &#8216;This is a person who had experiences and figured out how to use language to articulate those experiences.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_383_-_Everett_Glenn.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>&nbsp;Then check out&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the archives<\/a>&nbsp;for more great episodes!<\/p>\n<p>Lots 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=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ev_glenn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everett Glenn<\/a> is a semi-reclusive American cartoonist living in Berlin, Germany. He works in various mediums, including drawing, painting, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/es_glenn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">designing fashion accessories<\/a>. His work grows out of his tumultuous upbringing and personal experiences. His most recent works are the graphic novel <a href=\"https:\/\/floatingworldcomics.com\/shop\/comic-books\/unsmooth-1-by-e-s-glenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsmooth<\/a> (Floating World Comics) and the story <em>The Gigs<\/em>, anthologized in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/now8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOW #8<\/a> (Fantagraphics).<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Fella<em>&nbsp;by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/may4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hal Mayforth<\/a>, used with permission from&nbsp;the artist. 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 Everett by him. 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 383: Everett Glenn &#8220;My motivation? Kinda cookie-cutter: Desperate person doesn&#8217;t want to die of alcoholism, writes instead. That&#8217;s the blurb.&#8221; Artist, cartoonist, and clotheshorse Everett Glenn joins the show from Berlin to talk about how narrating his life as a story helped him make (some) sense of his fragmented, chaotic upbringing (he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-383-everett-glenn\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 383 &#8211; Everett Glenn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13665,"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":[22,26,46,1023,4,1083,1183,18,19],"tags":[2414,6080,823,2305,4896,6077,6076,6081,1288,6079,1365,6078,831,5064,6082,2185],"class_list":["post-13664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-design","category-fashion","category-literature","category-movies","category-podcasts","category-politics-implicit","category-urban-issues","tag-charles-bukowski","tag-chuck-palaniuk","tag-eddie-campbell","tag-elizabeth-gilbert","tag-emma-allen","tag-es-glenn","tag-everett-glenn","tag-gabe-fowler","tag-jeff-koons","tag-khalil-gibran","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-miranda-july","tag-r-crumb","tag-ralph-bakshi","tag-simon-hanselmann","tag-somerset-maugham","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/everettglenncomp.jpg?fit=1748%2C800","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3yo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14529,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-439-glenn-head","url_meta":{"origin":13664,"position":0},"title":"Episode 439 &#8211; Glenn Head","author":"Gil","date":"June 15, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 439: Glenn Head \"My whole interest in comics and autobiography is to show the dirt that's under everyone's fingernails, to capture that and not look away from it.\" With his new graphic memoir, Chartwell Manor (Fantagraphics), cartoonist Glenn Head returns to the scene of the crime: the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/glennhead2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C531&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/glennhead2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C531&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/glennhead2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C531&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/glennhead2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C531&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/glennhead2021comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C531&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17844,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-664-glenn-kurtz","url_meta":{"origin":13664,"position":1},"title":"Episode 664 &#8211; Glenn Kurtz","author":"Gil","date":"November 18, 2025","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 664: Glenn Kurtz \"It's a profound question: What are we looking at? If you keep asking that question in a naive and cunning way, it will draw out the history of the world.\" Who were the men who built the Empire State Building? 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