{"id":13769,"date":"2020-08-13T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2020-08-13T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:36:35","slug":"episode-391-christopher-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-391-christopher-brown","title":{"rendered":"Episode 391 – Christopher Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 391:
\nChristopher Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Utopia is not a place; it’s a decision. It’s a decision to try to live a better life, to craft a more wholesome community.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Can there be economic justice without environmental justice? With his new novel, FAILED STATE<\/a> (Harper Voyager), Christopher Brown<\/a> returns to the alternate America of Tropic of Kansas<\/a> (2017<\/a>) and Rule of Capture<\/a> (2019<\/a>) to explore the possibility of utopia and the catastrophe of man’s disconnect from the land. We talk about how he reprised his great character Donny Kimoe (causing Amazon to categorize this book as “Dystopian Lawyer”), the roots of the world he built in these novels and his drive to publish 3 books in 4 years, and how the pandemic is influencing the choice of his next project, and how he’s been coping since our COVID Check-In<\/a> a few months ago. We also get into the culture of undocumented people in his area of Texas, the documentary TV episode<\/a> about his home in east Austin, his current binge of Latin American horror by women writers, the role of resistance when the law is being subverted by politics, the future of his wonderful Field Notes<\/a> weekly e-mail, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Failed State<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Decisions about accountability are in the hands of politicians, and politicians are all very terrified of the idea of people being held criminally accountable for things that are at the margins of politics and power.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n