{"id":17103,"date":"2024-10-22T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17103"},"modified":"2024-10-22T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T00:29:52","slug":"episode-609-doug-brod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-609-doug-brod","title":{"rendered":"Episode 609 – Doug Brod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 609:
\nDoug Brod<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I wanted to approach LaVey from a journalistic point of view . . . I wanted to try to get to the real story, to humanize this guy who was seen as a demonic character.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hail Satan! It’s spooky season, and writer\/editor Doug Brod joins the show to celebrate his fantastic new biography, BORN WITH A TAIL: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan<\/a> (Hachette). We talk about the line between huckster and believer, the history of the Church of Satan<\/a>, why Doug didn’t want to puncture the mythology LaVey built around his life, and the fun of writing a chapter about Sammy Davis Jr. exploring Satanism. We also get into how LaVey’s philosophy of self-deification and aesthetics managed to penetrate American culture, how Doug balanced reporting & cultural history for the book, the people he wishes he could’ve interviewed, how LaVey reveled in spreading his gospel to the post-punk\/’zine generation in the ’90s, what it takes to create one’s own aesthetic world while still going out to Olive Garden, Doug’s first book about ’70s hard rock<\/a>, what it means to consider Satan as metaphor rather than incarnated being, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“At a certain point, you say so what if this guy embellished his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. He was building up a myth, like so many other celebrities do in our culture.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n