{"id":485,"date":"2005-02-07T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=485"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:21:35","slug":"writers-procrastinating-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/writers-procrastinating-at-work","title":{"rendered":"Writers (Procrastinating) at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a wee Virtual Memoirist in my grad school days in Annapolis<\/a>, I used to read the Paris Review<\/a>‘s Writers at Work<\/span> interviews all the time. Borrowed a bunch of the collected volumes from the public libraries, and abused the photocopier at the MD DOT<\/a> — where I taught GED skills to highway workers — to make copies of the best ones.<\/p>\n

Now, the magazine is posting a whole ton of these great interviews<\/a> on its site. For some bizarre reason (probably legal), they’re calling it the “DNA of Literature,” rather than “Writers At Work.” <\/p>\n

Also, I’m not sure why certain of them haven’t been PDF’d (you really<\/span> need to read the Faulkner one).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a wee Virtual Memoirist in my grad school days in Annapolis, I used to read the Paris Review‘s Writers at Work interviews all the time. Borrowed a bunch of the collected volumes from the public libraries, and abused the photocopier at the MD DOT — where I taught GED skills to highway … <\/p>\n

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(Or at least my Apocrypha. My Bible was a mash-up of Tropic of Cancer and Inside the Whale.) I'd seek out the collections\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0802131786","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4259,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/0-fer-of-the-week-paris-toilet","url_meta":{"origin":485,"position":1},"title":"0-fer of the Week: Paris, Toilet","author":"Gil","date":"July 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx gets locked in a bathroom by Harpo, leading him to shout, \"Let me out of here! Hey, let me out of here! Or throw me a magazine!\" For reasons I won't bother to mention, a shelf in our downstairs bathroom contains a number of essay\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312361750","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":483,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/writers-out-of-work","url_meta":{"origin":485,"position":2},"title":"Writers Out of Work","author":"Gil","date":"February 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Back to those Paris Review interviews. I don't even remember if any of the collected volumes I pillaged included the interview with Robert Penn Warren. I hadn't read All the King's Men at that point, and had no idea of how mindblowingly good that novel is.Here's a piece of Warren's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7218,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-readercon-2013-monsters-memories-and-mythmaking","url_meta":{"origin":485,"position":3},"title":"Podcast: Readercon 2013 – Monsters, Memories and Mythmaking","author":"Gil","date":"August 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories - season 3 episode 16 - Readercon - Monsters, Memories and Mythmaking \"Readercon focuses on the literature. And the people who come here are really smart. They take science fiction and fantasy seriously as literature. It's always interesting to be on panels. 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