{"id":16737,"date":"2024-04-09T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16737"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:14:49","slug":"episode-584-emily-raboteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-584-emily-raboteau","title":{"rendered":"Episode 584 – Emily Raboteau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 584:
\nEmily Raboteau<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The flipside of despair about everything we could lose from climate change is there’s so much worth saving, so much beauty, so much precious.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>After a ~10-year gap, Emily Raboteau<\/a> rejoins the show to celebrate her amazing new essay collection, LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”<\/a> (Holt). We talk about her sparkbird and the Audubon Mural Project<\/a> in Washington Heights that center the book, her transformation into a climate activist, the joy of the flaneuse, her scavenger hunt for Justin Brice Guariglia<\/a>‘s environmental art, and the idea of pain with a purpose. We also get into the differences between mothering & motherhood, the reason she put “the Apocalypse” in quotes in her subtitle, how COVID lockdown made her realize her kids’ lives had been overscheduled (and how lockdown gave them some room to breathe), and the nor’easter-battered book-event in Princeton that corroborated her book’s community-thesis. Plus we discuss her dream of interviewing Vivian Gornick<\/a>, how we need to overcome pandemic-amnesia, the place her children really want to visit, how she’s changed as a writer since we last talked<\/a>, what the difference is between surviving and living, and a lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“During the early pandemic, a lot of New Yorkers got into birding. The air was full of two sounds: birdsong, and ambulance sirens.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n