{"id":14156,"date":"2021-01-05T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14156"},"modified":"2021-01-05T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:10:48","slug":"episode-415-jerome-charyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-415-jerome-charyn","title":{"rendered":"Episode 415 – Jerome Charyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 415:
\nJerome Charyn<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Any great work is a shove to the incomprehensible, but it’s JUST on our side instead of the other side. You have to take tremendous risks in order to find your language.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With his amazing new novel, Sergeant Salinger<\/a> (Bellevue Literary Press), Jerome Charyn<\/a> evokes and explores J.D. Salinger’s WWII experience in the Counter Intelligence Corps. We talk about Jerome’s history with Salinger’s work, his disdain for The Catcher in the Rye<\/a> and his love of Nine Stories<\/a> and their depiction of NYC of the 1940s and early ’50s, the range of meanings and misunderstandings of Salinger’s later silence, and Jerome’s own terror of writing. Along the way, we get into Jerome’s ventriloquism in his historical fiction, the limits of his artistic audacity, falling in love with Maria Callas, and whether he’d write a pastiche of Hemingway now that Hem’s in public domain. Jerome being Jerome, we also discuss ping-pong, professional basketball, the older Michael Jordan as a Shakespearean character, and why he’s writing a big essay about Mank<\/a>. Give it a listen<\/a> (& check out our 2019 conversation)<\/em>! And go read Sergeant Salinger<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen a great difference between fiction and non-fiction. They’re still sculpting sentences, and those sentences have to have a certain kind of music.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n