{"id":14993,"date":"2022-01-11T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14993"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:40:09","slug":"episode-468-wallis-wilde-menozzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-468-wallis-wilde-menozzi","title":{"rendered":"Episode 468 – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 468: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a><\/p>\n

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“A book about silence has to have silence in it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Author, poet and translator Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a> returns to the show to explore her new memoir\/meditation, Silence & Silences<\/a> (FSG). We talk about the uses and abuses of silence, the magic of herons, what it takes for the voiceless to find a voice, the nature of censorship (both external and self-driven), whether “home” is where you live or where you’re buried, and how she developed the mosaic mode of her new book. We also get into feminine writing vs. masculine writing, her distrust of the authority of words, the differences between American and Italian culture when she started exploring family history, her accidental career, and the experience of editing the “final” draft just as the pandemic began, and finding there was more to write<\/a>. She also explains why she doesn’t keep out-takes of her writing, why some experiences are too personal for social media, and what it meant to be a woman writer when she was coming up. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Silence & Silences<\/a>! (& listen to our 2013<\/a> and 2017<\/a> conversations)<\/em><\/p>\n

“There are major women writers now who are articulating things that one could recognize but was waiting for someone to put words to.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n